Erin M. Barclay
General manager & Faculty member
is a career member of the Senior Executive Service and serves concurrently as the Coordinator for Global Democratic Renewal in the Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights and Democracy and senior official for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Prior to these positions, Erin was the Executive Director of the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She previously ran INL’s Office of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, as well as INL’s Office of Criminal Justice Assistance and Partnership. Prior to coming back as INL’s Executive Director, Ms. Barclay served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the International Organization Affairs, and Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. She is the recipient of the 2021 President Rank Award, the 2020 F. Allen “Tex” Harris Human Rights Diplomacy Award from the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Region, and numerous State Department performance awards.
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ProfessorKeyvan Mahtavand
General manager & Faculty member
The founder and president of the world's first light therapy university, the leader of the scientific and international society of meditation, hypnosis and chakra therapy.He has a Terminal degree in philosophy and is a political and military consultant, author, therapist, poet, and grand professor of philosophy, and grand master of hypnosis, meditation, light therapy, and chakra therapy, and an official member of Harvard University and New York University. Mahtavand is one of the top professors of hypnosis and meditation in the world competitions in Netherlands . Mahtavand passed the intelligence test at the United Nations without mistakes and at the same time he studied in 30 academic fields at Harvard, Berkeley and New York and mahtavand is a genius. Mahtavand is also the creator of Iran's first artificial intelligence software. And the master of the first series of educational films is graphic design, printing and working with printing machines.
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Michael W. Derrios
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Michael W. Derrios is a recognized leader in the field of government acquisition with more than 25 years of federal, military and private sector experience. He has been a member of the Senior Executive Service since 2015. Mr. Derrios currently serves as the Senior Procurement Executive for the U.S. Department of State. In this capacity, he is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and evaluating all global procurement and contracting operations and activities within the Department of State as well as procurement grants and cooperative agreements, which constitute a broad and complex support mechanism for the Department and the Foreign Service.
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Namita Biggins
Faculty member
is currently the State Department’s Spanish-Language Spokesperson and Director of the Media Hub of the Americas based in Miami, Florida. She joined the Foreign Service in 2010, and has served in Barbados, India, Washington, DC, and Venezuela. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, she worked in the banking industry for eight years. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Dr. Mamadi Yilla, PhD
Faculty member
is a member of the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. government and is currently the Acting Deputy Coordinator for Health Diplomacy in the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD). She most recently served as the Acting Principal Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. As such, she served as the second-in-command to the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and supported the daily oversight, coordination, leadership, management, and implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to ensure that all its activities and resources, including its annual budget of approximately $6 billion in over 50 countries was as impactful, effective, and efficient as possible. Prior to joining the Department of State, Dr. Yilla served the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a research fellow in immunology, improving diagnostic tools for vaccine-preventable childhood diseases.
Dr. Rebecca Bunnell
Faculty member
Dr. Rebecca Bunnell, PhD, MEd, is the Acting Principal Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for PEPFAR. She serves as the second in command to the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, overseeing the implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)’s $6 billion annual budget and activities in over 50 countries. With over 30 years of public health experience, Dr. Bunnell lived and worked for 17 years in Uganda, Kenya, and Honduras. She has worked for Peace Corps, USAID, CDC, Médecins sans Frontières, the UK Medical Research Council, and non-governmental organizations. From 2019-2023, Dr. Bunnell served as CDC’s Chief Science Officer and Director of the Office of Science, providing strategic direction and leadership for over 6,000 CDC scientists. Dr. Bunnell helped lead major public health initiatives, including PEPFAR and Global Health Security in multiple countries. A graduate of CDC’s two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service program,
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Emily Blanchard
Faculty member
was sworn-in as Chief Economist on January 3, 2022. She is a leading expert on international economic policy, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and a research fellow with the Center for Economic Policy Research. Professor Blanchard’s research lies at the intersection of international economics and public policy. She has written extensively on how foreign investment and global value chains are changing the role of trade and trade agreements in the 21st century
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Dr. Cary Fowler
Faculty member
Dr. Cary Fowler is perhaps best known as the “father” of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon described as an “inspirational symbol of peace and food security for the entire humanity.” This facility provides ultimate security for more than 1 million unique crop varieties, the biological foundation of agriculture and the raw material for all future plant breeding and crop improvement efforts. Dr. Fowler is the former Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, an international organization cosponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Prior to leading the Crop Trust, he was a Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and a senior staff member of Bioversity International.
Dr. Vivian Walker
Faculty member
Vivian S. Walker is the Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy at the Department of State. Currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a member of the Foreign Service Journal Editorial Board, she has also served as a Faculty Fellow in the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and the Guest Editor for the CPD Perspectives series. She has taught at Central European University’s School of Public Policy and served as a Research Fellow at the CEU Center for Media, Data and Society. She is a former Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College in Washington, DC and the National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates.
Holly C. Holzer
Faculty member
Holly Holzer is career Foreign Service Officer who most recently served as Director for Third Country Operations for the Coordinator for Afghanistan Relocation Efforts at the Department of State. Her team managed the care and movement of individuals once they departed Afghanistan and coordinated their onward travel to the United States. Prior to this she was the Consul for Political and Economic Affairs at the U.S. Consulate General Milan. Ms. Holzer was NATO’s Deputy Senior Civilian Representative as part of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan and as a Rule of Law Advisor for USAID. While in Afghanistan, she focused on increasing women’s involvement and influence in government, with a focus on the justice sector and the peace process. She has served in Nepal, Eritrea, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Georgia. On assignment in Washington, she served as the Deputy Director in the Office of Iranian Affairs, as a Senior Advisor to the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, and in the Operations Center.
