Principals & Senior Advisors
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Naazneen Barma
Principal
Naazneen H. Barma is the Scrivner Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and the founding Director of the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs.
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Brent Durbin
Principal
Brent Durbin is a Bridging the Gap Director and an Associate Professor of Government at Smith College, where he teaches courses in U.S. foreign policy, strategic intelligence, international relations, and the politics of data.
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Jordan Tama
Principal
Jordan Tama is Professor in the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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Jim Goldgeier
Senior Advisor
Jim Goldgeier is a Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as Dean from 2011-17.
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Bruce W. Jentleson
Senior Advisor
Bruce W. Jentleson is William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke
University as well as Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Non-Resident
Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Broader Leadership
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Emmanuel Balogun
Director
Emmanuel Balogun is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College.
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Suparna Chaudhry
Director
Suparna Chaudhry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College and an Affiliated Scholar with the International Justice Lab at the College of William & Mary.
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Debak Das
Director
Debak Das is an Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver.
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Dani Gilbert
Senior Director
Dani Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
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Megan Lyons
Associate Director, Bridging the Gap
Megan Lyons is the Associate Director for Bridging the Gap, overseeing BTG’s workshops, trainings, communications, and partnerships funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Megan Nerdig
Assistant Director, New Voices Workshops
Megan Nerdig is the Assistant Director for New Voices Workshops, managing the New Voices in National Security initiative funded by the Raymond Frankel Foundation.
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Andrew Reddie
Director
Andrew W. Reddie is an Associate Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, and Founder of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.
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Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark
Senior Director
Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.