United States Institute of Peace

Leadership & Staff

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Mona Yacoubian Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Center at US Institute of Peace

• Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Center ('17→?)

Belquis Ahmadi

• Senior Program Manager ('15→?)

Robin Wright Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center

• Distinguished Scholar

Stephen J Hadley former National Security Advisor | Director, Raytheon

• Senior Advisor for International Affairs

Chuck Hagel Former Obama defense secretary, Nebraska U.S. senator

• Board of Directors

Nate Cavanaugh DOGE operative installed as Institute of Peace head

• Position

Pete Hegseth Trump defense secretary, former chairman/Co-founder Of Vets For Freedom

• Position

George Moose Diplomat, US Institute of Peace board chair

• CEO

Kristin M Lord Executive Vice President, United States Institute of Peace

• Executive Vice President (Jan '13→Oct '14)

Clifford D May Clifford D. May is the President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, created immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the United States

• Advisor ('06→?)

Board Members

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John Kerry 68th US Secretary of State, Senator from Massachusetts

• Board of Directors

Gregg F Martin President of National Defense University

• Board of Directors

John A Lancaster Retired executive director of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)

• Board of Directors

Joseph Eldridge Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

• Board of Directors

Nancy Zirkin EVP, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

• Board of Directors

Ikram U Khan President of Quality Care Consultants, LLC

• Board of Directors

Judy Ansley Deputy national security advisor, National Security Council (NSC) (2008-2009)

• Board of Directors

Jeremy A Rabkin

• Board of Directors

Stephen D Krasner Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

• Board of Directors

George Moose Diplomat, US Institute of Peace board chair

• Board of Directors

Donors

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• Grant · 1,000,000 USD

Donations

Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs 60+ schools in the Americas, Asia, and Europe

• Grant

Child Organizations

Iraq Study Group

• Child Org

International Advisory Council The U.S. Institute of Peace’s International Advisory Council (IAC) brings together thought leaders and senior policy experts committed to the Institute’s mission and activities.

• Advisory council*

Services & Transactions

Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc. U.S. multinational security services company

• Service/Transaction

NDU STAR-TIDES

• Service/Transaction

PeaceTech Lab PeaceTech Lab was established as the Center of Innovation at the U.S. Institute of Peace in 2008 and became a 501c3 nonprofit with expert staff and a Board of Directors in 2014

• Centre for Inovation ('08→?)*

Miscellaneous Relationships

Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk / Vivek Ramaswamy small-government task force

• Affiliation

Doha Forum

• Affiliation

PeaceTech Accelerator The PeaceTech Accelerator was the first major international peacetech program powered by cloud innovation and dedicated to scaling startups from around the world.

• hosted