Washington, DC – Foreign Policy for America recently added twelve new members to its Advisory Board, representing a broad range of regional and functional expertise. We’re proud to welcome this diverse group to our leadership and look forward to working with them.
The FP4A Advisory Board guides the organization’s policy agenda and its biannual Legislative Scorecard. Recent advisors currently serve at the highest levels of President Biden’s administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Ambassador the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
The new FP4A advisory board members include:
- John B. Bellinger, III – Bellinger is currently co-chair of Arnold & Porter’s Global Law and Public Policy practice. He formerly served as Legal Adviser to the Department of State and Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration.
- Louis Caldera – Caldera co-founded and co-chairs the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. He also formerly served as Secretary of the Army during the Clinton administration and as an Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Military Office during the Obama administration.
- Suzanne DiMaggio – DiMaggio is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and Asia. She is one of the foremost experts and practitioners of diplomatic dialogues with countries that have limited or no official relations with the United States, especially Iran and North Korea.
- Naima Green-Riley – Green-Riley is a Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Nonresident Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Following her doctoral defense, she will be joining the faculties of the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She specializes in Chinese foreign policy, with a focus on public diplomacy and the global information space.
- David J. Kramer – Kramer is a Senior Fellow in the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy and Director for European and Eurasian Studies at Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He formerly served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the George W. Bush administration, as well as four years as the President of Freedom House.
- Tjada D’Oyen McKenna – McKenna is the Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, one of the most respected international relief and development organizations in the world, with ongoing operations in more than 40 countries, a staff of 5,600, and global revenue of over $500 million. She previously spent time as COO of CARE, and as the Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security, where she led the implementation of Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
- Regina Montoya – Montoya is the CEO and Chairperson of Regina T. Montoya, PLLC. She is a Harvard-trained attorney who was one of the first Latinas to earn partnership in a major corporate law firm in the U.S. She formerly served as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Clinton administration, where she was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the White House.
- Amb. Susan D. Page – Page is a professor of practice in international diplomacy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School. A retired member of the U.S. Foreign Service, she was sworn in as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan in 2011. She also served as Acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the African Union and the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., to the U.S. Mission to the African Union.
- Christopher Preble – Preble is co-director of the Atlantic Council’s New American Engagement Initiative within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, where he leads a team of scholars who challenge prevailing assumptions surrounding U.S. foreign policy. His own work focuses on the history of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary U.S. grand strategy and military force posture, alliance relations, and the intersection of trade and national security.
- Ben Rhodes – Rhodes is the author of the New York Times bestsellers After the Fall and The World As It Is; co-host of Pod Save the World; a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC; and former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. In that capacity, he participated in nearly all of President Obama’s key decisions, and oversaw the President’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming.
- Amb. Melanne Verveer – Verveer is currently the Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She previously served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, a position to which she was nominated by President Obama in 2009, and as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton. Verveer also spent eight years as the Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO that she co-founded to invest in emerging women leaders.
- Robert B. Zoellick – Zoellick is Senior Counselor at Brunswick Geopolitical, an advisory service of Brunswick Group, and a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a former President of the World Bank Group and served as U.S. Trade Representative and Deputy Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration and as an Under Secretary of State, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury in the George H.W. Bush and Reagan administrations.
FP4A is also pleased to announce that new advisor John B. Bellinger, III will join longtime FP4A advisor Heather Hurlburt as the co-chairs of our policy meetings for the 117th Congress. These meetings take place in the spring and fall of each year and convene diverse experts from across our community, including members of the advisory board, to advise on the organization’s agenda and our biannual Legislative Scorecard. FP4A’s scorecard for the 117th Congress will be released in March 2023.
“Foreign Policy for America is an indispensable voice for principled American engagement in the world,” said FP4A Policy Committee Co-Chair Heather Hurlburt. “They’ve assembled a truly impressive group of foreign policy experts as advisors, breaking down silos of expertise and partisanship in a way that is all too rare in Washington right now. I’m proud to co-chair the policy committee with John Bellinger, building broad community consensus on how congressional action can move the needle on our most pressing challenges.”
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