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PIRA'S GLOBAL POLITICAL RISK SERVICE |
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PIRA’s Global Political Risk Advisory Board |
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PIRA’s Global Political Risk Advisory Board
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Dr. Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at
the Hoover Institution, co-editor of the Journal of
Democracy, and co-director of the International
Forum for Democratic Studies and of the National
Endowment for Democracy. He is also professor of
political science and sociology (by courtesy) at
Stanford University and coordinator of the Democracy
Program of the new Center for Democracy, Development,
and the Rule of Law at Stanford's Institute for
International Studies. He served as a senior adviser to
the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, advising
on issues related to the political transition in Iraq,
from January to March 2004. Diamond is the author of
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the
Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books,
2005). Dr. Diamond has written extensively on the
factors that facilitate and obstruct democratic
development, as well as on the interactions between
democracy, corruption, economic development, and
political stability. He has published more than 20 other
books. He has lectured in over 20 countries on problems
of democratic development and was a visiting scholar at
the Academia Sinica (Taiwan, 1997-98) and a Fulbright
Visiting Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano (Nigeria,
1982-83). Dr. Diamond received all of his degrees from
Stanford University, including a BA in 1974, an MA in
1978, and a PhD in Sociology in 1980. He taught
Sociology at Vanderbilt University from 1980-85 before
joining the Hoover Institution.
Dr. Martha Olcott is a senior associate
with the Russian & Eurasian Program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Olcott
specializes in the problems of transitions in Central
Asia and the Caucasus as well as the security challenges
in the Caspian region more generally. She has followed
interethnic relations in Russia and the states of the
former Soviet Union for more than 25 years and has
traveled extensively in these countries and in South
Asia. Her book, Central Asia’s Second Chance,
examines the economic and political development of this
ethnically diverse and strategically vital region in the
context of the changing security threats post 9/11. She
is professor emerita at Colgate University, having
taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Olcott
served for five years as a director of the Central Asian
American Enterprise Fund. Prior to her work at the
Carnegie Endowment, Olcott served as a special
consultant to former Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger. Dr. Olcott received a BA from SUNY-Buffalo
and an M.A. and Ph.D., from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Gary Sick is a Senior Research
Scholar and an Adjunct Professor of International
Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International
and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the former director of
SIPA's Middle East Institute. He is the author of
All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran
(Random House, 1985) and October Surprise: America's
Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan
(Random House/Times Books, 1992). Professor Sick served
on the National Security Council under presidents Ford,
Carter and Reagan and was the principal White House aide
for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage
crisis. Dr. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy,
with service in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and the
Mediterranean. He was the Deputy Director for
International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982
to 1987, where he was responsible for programs relating
to U.S. foreign policy. He is also a member (emeritus)
of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and
chairman of its Middle East and North Africa advisory
committee. He is the executive director of Gulf/2000, an
international research project on political, economic
and security developments in the Persian Gulf, being
conducted at Columbia University. Dr. Sick received his
BA from Kansas University in 1957 and a Master of
Science from George Washington University in 1970. In
1973 he earned a PhD from Columbia.
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