F.I.N.E. Dining brochure

F.I.N.E. February 23
Dining
2017

Industry Tables

Conflict Resolution ………………………………………………….3
Development & Relief ………………………………………………4
Education..……………………………………………………………5
Research (Academia & Think Tanks)…….………………….………...6
Energy & Environmental Sustainability……………………………….7
Human Rights & International Law …..………………………………8
Security & Intelligence ……………………..……………………….. 9
Global Communications…………………………………………......10
Trade Policy ………………….……………………………………...11
Science & Technology………………………………………………12

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Conflict Resolution

Table 1

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Development & Relief

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Susana Oguntoye is a public health specialist with a focus on implementation, development,
and monitoring and evaluation of health projects. Susana has over 12 years of experience
working in health services development, has considerable expertise on health research and
policy, and has helped design, monitor, evaluate, and implement health service development
programs in the U.K., U.S., and sub-Saharan Africa. Susana jointed Africare via a merger with
Accordia Global Health Foundation where she was Director of Programs and Research. She now
serves as Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, & Knowledge Learning. In previous year, Susana
built laboratory capacity in Africa with the American Society for Microbiology and has worked
in gender and health, specifically to protect the rights and dignity of African women and girls.
Raised in Nigeria and Germany, Susana holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology &
Immunology from King’s College, University of London, and a Masters in Public Health degree
from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Professionally, Susana's passion is
addressing health inequalities via health systems strengthening. She considers herself a global
citizen and speaks several languages.

An ESIA alumnus, Charles E. Kiamie, III is Regional Program Coordinator in USAID's Middle
East Bureau. Between 2007 and 2014, he was Lead Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S.
Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Dr. Kiamie has taught politics and Middle
Eastern Studies at GW since 2005. Previously, he worked for Lockheed Martin Information
Technology and taught at Georgetown and Pepperdine. Dr. Kiamie has lived and worked in
nearly all countries in the Middle East and North Africa and has particular interest in the Levant.
He was a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan and read Oriental Studies at Oxford University. Dr.
Kiamie's professional and research interests include political reform, nation-building,
(de)liberalization, political retraditionalization, and Islamism in the Arab and Islamic worlds.
Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University; M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University; B.A.,
Middle Eastern Studies, The George Washington University.

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Education

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Upshur Whittock was born in Philadelphia and grew up in nearby Media, Pennsylvania. He was
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 with a B.A. in American History.
In 1994 he went to Tela, Atlántida, Honduras to teach at the Escuela Episcopal Bilingüe Espíritu
Santo. In the 1994-95 school year, he taught fourth grade; in the 1995-96 school year, he taught
English grammar to the high school.
In 2004, he took an M.A. in International Affairs, concentrating in Latin America, from the
George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 2005, he established Bilingual Schooling
for Tela, Atlántida (BiSTA). In 2006, BiSTA was deemed an non-profit organization under
section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Research (Academia & Think
Tanks)

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Energy & Environmental
Sustainability

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Global Communications

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Dominic Hawkins brings years of experience in communications strategy and consulting to
SKDKnickerbocker, where he works on corporate public affairs, progressive Supreme Court
case advocacy, non-profit communications. While at SKDK he’s worked on both DOJ and FTC
matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Dominic worked as a management consultant at Accenture for the
United States Postal Service and on the communications and public affairs teams at the U.S.
Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Reta Jo Lewis’ campaign for mayor of
the District of Columbia, APCO Worldwide and Sodexo.
Dominic is a native New Yorker (turned D.C. transplant) who graduated from The George
Washington University, where he studied communication and music.

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Human Rights & International Law

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Mike Helms has been with Oxfam America since 2008, where he started out as an assistant to
the Director of Policy and Research as well as the Director of Government Affairs. In 2010,
Mike moved fully into Government Affairs, and currently serves as an advisor in that
department. In this role, Mike works with all of Oxfam’s content teams, campaigns and support
departments to further Oxfam’s advocacy mission. Prior to joining Oxfam, Mike graduated from
Georgetown University Law Center in 2007 with a JD, and with a BA from the University of
Florida in 2004.

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Security & Intelligence

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Jeff Lightfoot is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center
on International Security. He specializes in transatlantic security, European politics, France, and
Middle East security.
Lightfoot is a senior associate at the Jones Group International, an international business
advisory firm founded by General James L. Jones specializing in trade promotion, market access,
and strategic leadership.
Prior to joining the Jones Group International in 2014, Lightfoot worked for six and a half years
at the Atlantic Council, rising to the level of deputy director at the Brent Scowcroft Center.
While at the Council, Lightfoot served as project rapporteur or report author for numerous, high-
level Atlantic Council studies on the most pressing issues for US foreign policy, including US-
Pakistan relations, US-Central Asian relations after Afghanistan, NATO, US-Russia relations,
and American security assistance to Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.
Lightfoot has authored op-eds and articles for Defense News, CNN, the Boston Globe, the
National Interest, the Fletcher Forum, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and La Revue
International et Strategique, among others. He is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s
Global Atlanticists network.
Lightfoot received his BA and BS from Indiana University Bloomington and earned his MA
from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He has studied
overseas at Sciences Po, Paris and the Rouen Business School and speaks French.

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Trade Policy

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Science & Technology

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Upcoming events

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