Authors
Jim Brady
Council Board Member
Katherine Baicker
Council Board Member
Michael Amiridis
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Eduardo Alvarez
Council Board Member
Kiran Misra
Former Government Partnerships Officer, UN World Food Programme
About Kiran Mirsa
Kiran Misra is a journalist and policy professional. She reports on the mechanisms behind systems of political power…
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Peggy Yih
Former Managing Director, Center on Global Food and Agriculture
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Jonathan Schachter
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
About Jonathan Schachter
Jonathan Schachter is a nonresident senior fellow of foreign policy at the Council. He's also a senior fellow…
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Paul Heer
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Lester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy
About Paul Heer
Paul Heer served for 30 years as a specialist on East Asian affairs in the US intelligence community. He served on the…
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Michele Lowe
Former US Navy Federal Executive Fellow
About Michele Lowe
Michele Lowe graduated from the University of Florida in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business…
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Shoba Pillay
Partner, Jenner & Block
Before her time at Jenner & Block, Shoba Pillay was an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the…
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