The following individuals have served in leadership roles for the organization throughout its history and/or are internationally-recognized individuals representing strong and positive role models of women’s leadership in global security who enhance WIIS’ ability to pursue its mission worldwide by their association with WIIS. We thank them for their service.
Pamela Aall
Treasurer, Women In International Security; Senior Advisor, the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) [Toronto, Ontario]
Nicole Aandahl
Chief of Staff, EADS North America
Madeleine Albright
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital Management LLC. Former U.S. Secretary of State
Maria R. Alongi
Latvian Community Initiatives Foundation, Former Special Assistant to the Defense Advisor, U.S. Mission to NATO
Christiane Amanpour
Chief International Correspondent, CNN
Sid Ashworth
Vice President, Northrop Grumman
Dr. Deborah Avant
Professor and Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy, University of Denver
Yvonne Bartoli-Munro
Program Specialist in the Infrastructure Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Nancy Bearg
Senior Advisor, Project on National Security Reform; Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University
Susan Bennett
Senior Vice President of Exhibits, Programs, and Media Relations, Newseum
Dr. Nora Bensahel
Deputy Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, the Center for New American Security
Betty Bigombe
State Minister for Water Resources, the Uganda Cabinet
Ellen Blalock
Program Coordinator in Senior Services, Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA)
Avis Bohlen
Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Former Assistant Secretary for Arms Control at the U.S. Department of State
Naila Bolus
Executive Director, Ploughshares Fund
Dr. Esther Brimmer
J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University
Paula Broadwell
Major, U.S. Army (Active & Reserves)
Research Associate at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University; PhD Candidate, King’s College London
Sandy Brock
President, SMD Ltd. (co-chair)
Dr. Frances G. Burwell
Vice President and Director of Transatlantic Relations and Studies, The Atlantic Council of the United States
Sheila Buckley
Arms Control Consultant
Beverly B. Byron
Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-MD)
Dr. Anne H. Cahn
Member of the Advisory Board, The National Security Archive
Sarah Carey (1939 – 2010)
Former Partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP; Former Chair of Eurasia Foundation
Diane Carnevale
Consultant, Anchor Consultants; Economics and Environmental Consultant, Anasazi Gold, LLC
Elsie Chang
Vice President, Coverent
Antonia Handler Chayes
Visiting Professor, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations; Former Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Deepti Choubey
Senior Director for Nuclear and Biosecurity Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
Dr. Martha Crenshaw
Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University; Professor, Stanford University
Sheba Crocker
Principal Deputy Director in the Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State; Former Chief of Staff for Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, U.S. Department of State
Dr. Maryann Cusimano
Associate Professor in the Politics Department, The Catholic University of America; Fellow at the Commission on International Religious Freedom
Sally D’Amato
Principal, Deloitte LLP
Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis
Executive Vice President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Joyce M. Davis
President, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg; President, Davis and Goodman Media Consultants
Mimi Dawson
Senior Public Policy Consultant, Wiley Rein LLP
Sharon Denny
Vice President of Strategic Planning, Raytheon Technical Services
Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala
Former Under-Secretary-General of United Nations
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky
Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Nancy Donaldson
Vice President, Dutko Worldwide
Marsha Evans
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Director of Office Depot, Inc., Huntsman Corporation, Weight Watchers International, North Highland and The Estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings; Former Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of the USA; Former President and CEO of the American Red Cross
Evelyn P. Foote
Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired)
Member of the Board of Trustees for the Fund for Peace
Dr. Randall Caroline Forsberg (1943 – 2007)
Founder, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
Dr. Jendayi Frazer
Distinguished Public Service Professor at the Heinz College and Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon; Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Dr. Ellen L. Frost
Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Economic and Technology Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Lenora Peters Gant
Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Intelligence Community Human Capital; Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community Policy and Strategic Mission Outreach
Georgie Anne Geyer
Journalist and Columnist, Universal Press Syndicate
Valerie Gilpin
Chief, African Programs Branch Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State
Dr. Natalie J. Goldring
Senior Fellow at the Center for Peace and Security Studies; Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Sherri Goodman
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, CAN
Rose Gottemoeller
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, U.S. Department of State; Former Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation; Former Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, U.S. Department of Energy
Becca Gould
Vice President, Dell
Dr. Sherry Gray
Coordinator, Global Policy Area, Humphrey Institute
Melanie Greenberg
President and CEO, the Alliance for Peacebuilding
Dr. Lori Helene Gronich
Professorial Lecturer, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
Dr. Gwendolyn M. Hall
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired)
Dean, School of Security and Global Studies, American Public University System (APUS); Principal Infrastructure Protection Planner, URSCorp
Carol Rae Hansen
International Affairs and Education Consultant
Lcdr. Margaret Harlow
U.S. Navy (retired)
Dr. Virginia Haufler
Director of Global Communities, Director of Graduate Placement, and Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland
Mary Alice Hayward
Director, North American Strategy, AREVA Inc.
Theresa Hitchens
Director, UNIDIR
Amoretta M. Hoeber
President, AMH Consulting
Laurie Hoes
CEO, Strategy, Governance, and Operations, the LcHoesGroup
Laura S. H. Holgate
Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction in the Office of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator, National Security Council
Victoria K. Holt
Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Karen Elliott House
Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company; Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Dr. Jo Husbands
Scholar/Senior Project Director, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS); Adjunct Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Eileen Isola
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired)
Program Manager and Senior Defense Analyst, SAIC, Inc.
Sarah Jackson
Deborah James
Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Angela Kane
Under Secretary-General for Management, United Nations
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Former U.S. Senator (R – KS)
Yoriko Kawaguchi
Co-Chair of International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, and former Foreign Minister
Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher
President emerita and Secretary of Women In International Security, Professor at the University of Maryland, and Professor emeritus at the Naval War College
Lorelei Kelly
Research Fellow with the Open Technology Initiative, New America Foundation; Former Director, New Strategic Security Initiative
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend
Chair of the Institute for Human Virology, University of Maryland, College Park; Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Claudia Kennedy
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired)
Chairwoman, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS), U.S. Department of Defense
Paul Kennedy
J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History; Director of International Security Studies; Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Yale University
Tiiu Kera
Major General, U.S. Air Force (Retired)
Former Deputy Chief of the Central Security Service, National Security Agency
Peggy Knudson
Director of Development, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Col. Barbara Lee
U.S. Army (retired)
Lora Lumpe
Coordinator for the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs; Senior Associate, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); Consultant for Amnesty International USA
Dr. Nancy Lubin
President, JNA Associates, Inc
Dr. Jane E. Holl Lute
President and CEO, Council on CyberSecurity; Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Former Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations
Ambassador Eileen Malloy
Member of Board of Directors, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training; Team Leader for Office of Inspector General, U.S. State Department; Former U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
Dr. Claire Ellen Max
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz; Director of the Center for Adaptive Optics, National Science Foundation
Dr. Johanna Mendelson-Forman
Senior Advisor with the Managing Across Boundaries Initiative, Stimson Center
Dalia Mogahed
Director of the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center (ADGC)
Dr. Janne E. Nolan
Research Professor, The George Washington University
Dr. Diana L. Ohlbaum
Senior Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dr. Deepa Ollapally
Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University Elliott School
Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat
President, Women In International Security; Executive Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) North America
Marie-Laure Poiré
Manager, Communications Office of The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Elizabeth Pond
Berlin-based American journalist; author, The Rebirth of Europe
Dana Priest
American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Dr. Aline Quester
Principal Research Scientist, Resource Analysis / Marine Corps Manpower Team, CNA Resource Analysis
Dr. George Quester
Former Chairman of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland
Sue Ramanathan
Counselor to the Secretary, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Lilia L. Ramirez
Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Director for International Programs, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Elisabeth Rehn
Former Minister of Defense and former Minister of Equality Affairs in Finland
Dr. Judith Reppy
Professor emeritus of Peace Studies and Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs at the U.S.
Mary Robinson
Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, and former President of Ireland
Joan Rohlfing
President and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Lynn Rusten
Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
Robin Sanders
Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria
Ann Sauer
Vice President of Washington Operations, Lockheed Martin
Nadia Schadlow
Senior Program Officer, Smith Richardson Foundation
Dr. Enid B. Schoettle
Independent Consultant in International Affairs; Member, Board of Directors of the Henry L. Stimson Center
Dr. Tammy Schultz
Director of National Security & Joint Warfare, U.S. Marine Corps War College
Harriet Fast Scott
Author
Dr. Mady Wechsler Segal
Professor, Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland; Associate Director of the Center for Research on Military Organization
Dr. Sarah B. Sewall
Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State; Former Professor and Director of the Program on National Security and Human Rights, Harvard University; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Jane M. O. Sharp
Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Dr. Lilia Shevtsova
Co-chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jolynn Shoemaker
Independent Consultant; Non-Resident Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Liberia
Wendy B. Silverman
Tara Sonenshine
Distinguished Fellow, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University; Former Executive Vice President, United States Institute of Peace
Dr. Joanna Spear
Associate Professor and Director of the Security Policy Studies Program, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Linda Staheli
Founding Director, Global Co Lab Network
Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley
Captain, U.S. Army (Retired); Founder of Mind Fitness Training Institute; Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government, Georgetown University
Maureen Steinbruner
Vice President, The Center for National Policy
Dr. Angela Stent
Professor and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Edmund A. School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Cecilie Jorgenson Strommen
Rev. Dr.; Embassy of Norway
Toni Verstandig
Executive Vice President at The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Jane Wales
President & CEO, World Affairs Council of Northern California; President & Co-Founder, Global Philanthropy Forum; Vice President of Philanthropy and Society, and Director of the Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation, The Aspen Institute
Margot Wallström
Former Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations
Ruth Wedgwood
Professor and Director of the International Law and Organizations Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University
Jennifer Weeks
Board Member, Society of Environmental Journalists; Freelance Writer
Dr. Carola Weil
Dean of the School of Professional and Extended Studies at American University
Mitzi M. Wertheim
U.S. Navy (Retired)
Director, the Energy Conversation at the Naval Postgraduate School; Former Deputy Undersecretary of the U.S. Navy
Dr. Cindy Williams
Former Principal Research Scientist, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anne Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy & Stability Operations, U.S. Department of Defense; Former Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security and Multilateral Affairs, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State
Meredith Woodruff
Vice-President for Special Programs, ABRAXAS Corporation; Founder and Partner at COPIA Coaching and Consulting
Dr. Susan Woodward
Professor, Political Science Program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Dr. Patricia Stein Wrightson
Program Director within the Program on Development, Security, and Cooperation, National Academy of Science’s