Principals & Senior Advisors

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Emmanuel Balogun

    Director

    Emmanuel Balogun is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College.

  • 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.

  • Debak Das

    Director

    Debak Das is an Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.