Staff
Washington, DC Office
Carie Lemack is a Visiting Fellow at the Center, where she is directing a project that works with victims of terror around the globe to promote awareness and civic engagement and to prevent against violent radicalization. Ms. Lemack co-founded and led the non-profit, non-partisan organization Families of September 11 after her mother, Judy Larocque, was killed on American Airlines Flight 11 that crashed into the World Trade Center. Carie successfully advocated alongside other 9/11 family members for the creation of the 9/11 investigative commission and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Carie has appeared in numerous media outlets and was invited to testify repeatedly before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. She has spoken nationally on a number of issues, including improved aviation security, prevention of nuclear terrorism, the need for citizen involvement in national security, and safety and preparedness reforms. Carie completed her graduate work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard College and holds a B.S. and MBA from Stanford.
Jason Ipe is a Senior Analyst for the Center. Mr. Ipe has provided research and written contributions to numerous book chapters and reports on issues of counterterrorism, money laundering, and nonproliferation. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut and his Master of Arts degree in International Security Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Alistair Millar is Director of the Center. He also teaches graduate level courses on counterterrorism and US foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University and has lectured at the Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence on the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. He is also a 2009/10 nonresident Senior Fellow at The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute. He has written numerous chapters, articles, and reports on international counterterrorism efforts, sanctions regimes, and nonproliferation. Millar is author, with Eric Rosand, of Allied against Terrorism: What’s Needed to Strengthen Worldwide Commitment. He has an MA from Leeds University and is a PhD candidate at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
Patrick Tobin is an Administrative Assistant with the Center. He graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the School of Public Affairs at American University.
Ambassador Thomas E. McNamara is a Distinguished Non-resident Fellow with the Center. A career diplomat, he served from 2006 to 2009 under Presidents Bush and Obama as the presidentially appointed director for federal, state, and local government reform of information management. He was Senior Advisor for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Department of State from 2001 to 2004. From 1998 to 2001 Ambassador McNamara was President and CEO of the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas in New York. After three years service a U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, he returned to the White House in 1991, as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs before moving in 1993 to the State Department as Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, and later, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. He has wide diplomatic experience in political-military, counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, European, and Russian affairs. Ambassador McNamara is also an Adjunct Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
New York Office
James Cockayne is a Senior Fellow and the Director of its New York office. Before joining the Center, James was a Senior Fellow at the International Peace Institute (IPI), where he was co-leader of their Coping with Crisis, Conflict and Change program, which focused on improving multilateral responses to transnational security challenges, including terrorism. At IPI, James also oversaw projects on the United Nations Security Council, organized crime, peace and justice, and private military and security companies. He also served as the principal NGO adviser in the preparation of the Montreux Document on private military and security companies, agreed by seventeen states in September 2008.
Prior to that, James was a Mellon Research Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action at the Institute of International Law and Justice at the New York University School of Law. He has also worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and served as Director of the Transnational Crime and Extradition Units in the Australian Attorney-General’s Department.
James has lectured widely and authored numerous reports and articles for scholarly journals, including Security Dialogue, Global Governance, the International Review of the Red Cross, the Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of Conflict and Security Law. He also was Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice from 2007-2008.
He has an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University (2005), and an LL.B. (Hons I) (2002) and B.A. (Hons I and University Medal) in Government and Public Administration (2000) from the University of Sydney.
Liat Shetret is a Research Associate with the Center. She recently graduated from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs with a Masters of International Affairs (M.I.A) and a focus on International Security Policy and Middle Eastern Studies. Ms. Shetret has worked as the Harold Rosenthal Fellow in International Affairs to the US House Committee on Homeland Security and has served as a Logistics Officer for the Israeli Defense Forces. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Brussels Office
Thomas Renard is a Senior Associate Fellow in the Center’s Brussels Office. He is also a Research Fellow in Security & Global Governance Program at the Egmont Institute. He has published numerous articles on terrorism and other security issues, including a report for the Belgian Armed Forces entitled Climate Change and International Security: Understanding a Complex Relationship in Order to Forecast Future Conflicts (2007-2030). He holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Journalism and a Licence in International Relations from the Université Catholique de Louvain.
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