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  1. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

    Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is the current President of The George Washington University. He has announced his retirement effective July 2007. He will be replaced by Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University. Trachtenberg also sits on the board of directors of Riggs Bank, where he has sparked controversey by opposing efforts to close the accounts of such Riggs clients as former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Trachtenberg is a native of Brooklyn, NY.

  2. Steven Knapp

    Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996.. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006 succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. He will become president of the university on August 1, 2007. Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, …

  3. John Logsdon

    John Logsdon is chairman of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University. Logsdon is on the board of directors of the Planetary Society, and was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA Advisory Council. He is frequently cited as an authority on space policy by press entities such as "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post". Logsdon is also a professor of political science and international affairs, …

  4. Roy Richard Grinker

    Roy Richard Grinker is an author and Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University. Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. He also spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar, and has conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea. Grinker is also editor of "Anthropological Quarterly".

  5. Pops Mensah-Bonsu

    Nana Papa Yaw Mensah-Bonsu, generally known as Pops Mensah-Bonsu (born September 7, 1983 in London), is a British basketball player and former star at the George Washington University in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He is a graduate of the St. Augustine College Preparatory School, in Richland, New Jersey. Upon graduating from college in 2006, Mensah-Bonsu entered the 2006 NBA Draft, but was not drafted. He now plays for the Dallas Mavericks.

  6. Steve Israel

    Steven "Steve" Israel (born May 30, 1958) is an American politician from the state of New York, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives

  7. Edward Gnehm

    Ambassador Gnehm joined the faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in August 2004. He was appointed to his present position as Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs in August 2006. Prior to coming to the Elliott School, Ambassador Gnehm was a member of the Senior Foreign Service and held the rank of Career Minister. Ambassador Gnehm last served in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

  8. Dana Bash

    Dana Bash is a CNN reporter and anchorwoman. She currently covers the Capitol Hill beat alongside Andrea Koppel. Previous to this assignment, Bash was a White House correspondent for the network. After completing her undergraduate degree at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., she joined CNN. Before becoming an on-air reporter, Dana was a producer for CNN on Capitol Hill, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Senate.

  9. Mike Jarvis

    Mike Jarvis is a sports commentator and former NCAA basketball coach at Boston University, George Washington University, and St. John's University. He also works as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN. His career college coaching record in over 18 seasons is 364-201 and is one of four Division I coaches to have won 100 games at three different colleges.

  10. Steven V. Roberts

    Steven V. Roberts (born February 11, 1943 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American journalist, writer, commentator. Roberts attended Harvard where he served as editor of the student newspaper, "The Harvard Crimson". After graduating with a B.A. in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by "The New York Times" as research assistant to James Reston, then the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief.

  11. Yinka Dare

    Yinka Dare (born October 10 1972 in Kano, Nigeria - January 92004 in Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.) was a Nigerian professional basketball player; a 7-foot-1, 270 pound (122 kg) center. He played one season at Milford Academy High, a prep school in Connecticut. Dare was discovered by Nigerian-born lawyer Lloyd Ukwu during a visit to Lagos in 1991. While Ukwu was driving, he noticed a very tall man sitting on a bench eating a bowl of food. When he asked him how tall he was, …

  12. Scott Wolf

    Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The George Washington University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance. He also became a Brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Wolf is known for his role as Bailey Salinger on "Party of Five". On both "Everwood" and the short-lived "The Nine", …

  13. William Staughton

    William Staughton (1770-1829) was a Baptist clergyman, a Chaplain of the United States Senate, and the first president of Columbian College (later known as George Washington University).

  14. Newton Howard

    Dr. Newton Howard is the founder and chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington, D.C. National Security Group. He is a leading international researcher on the physics of cognition (PoC) and its applications to defense and international security. A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford, his work there proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA). Dr.

  15. James Pinkerton

    James Pinkerton is a columnist, author, and political analyst. A graduate of Stanford University, he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns. Since his time in government he has become a columnist for "Newsday", a regular panelist on the FOX News program "Fox News Watch", and a rare, regular conservative contributor to The Huffington Post.

  16. Barry Freundel

    Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world. A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics. Popular among collegiates, he has served as a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale and Cornell and guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Chicago and other universities. He is also an adjunct professor at several universities.

  17. Joe Rospars

    A BSD founding partner, Joe spent 2007 and 2008 as the New Media Director for Obama for America, the successful Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, where he oversaw all online aspects of the unprecedented fundraising, communications and grassroots mobilization effort. At Obama for America, Joe led a wide-ranging program that integrated design and branding, web and video content, mass email, text messaging, and online advertising, organizing and fundraising.

  18. Ken Musgrave

    Dr. Forest Kenton "Ken" Musgrave (aka "Doc Mojo"), formerly a professor at The George Washington University and currently CEO/CTO of Pandromeda, Inc, is a computer artist, working with fractal images.

  19. David O. Cooke

    David O. "Doc" Cooke (August 31, 1920 - June 22, 2002) was a United States Department of Defense civilian administrator who served under twelve Secretaries of Defense over a period of 45 years. Often called the "Mayor of the Pentagon", Cooke was the department's highest-ranking career civil servant as director of administration and management, and as director of Washington Headquarters Services.

  20. Ali Al-Tamimi

    Dr. Ali Al-Tamimi is a biologist and Islamic teacher. He was convicted of inciting terrorism in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network. Al-Tamimi was born in Washington, DC, and raised in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. His father, a lawyer, worked at the Iraqi embassy, and his mother was a noted scholar of psychology. When he was 15 his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where he became interested in Islam. On returning to the U.S. two years later, …

  21. Nathaniel C. Comfort

    Nathaniel C. Comfort is an American historian specialising in the history of biology. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and he previously was employed in the history department at The George Washington University. He is currently working on the history of human and medical genetics in America. Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock, …

  22. James R. Allen

    General James R. Allen (born 1925) was commander in chief of the Military Airlift Command, with headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, and the seventh Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy. Allen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1943. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1944, …

  23. William Cline Borden

    William Cline Borden (1858-1934) was an American surgeon who was a key planner behind the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. According to the medical center website, Borden "was the initiator, planner and effective mover for the creation, location, and first Congressional support of the Medical Center." For this reason, …

  24. Paul A. Yost Jr.

    Paul Alexander Yost, Jr. (born 1929), He served as the eighteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1986 to 1990. He is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and earned graduate degrees from the University of Connecticut and The George Washington University. Prior to becoming Commandant, he served as a patrol boat commmander during the Vietnam War.

  25. Orval H. Hansen

    Orval Howard Hansen (born August 3, 1926 in Firth, Idaho) was a United States Representative from Idaho. Hansen served as a Republican in the House from 1969 to 1975, representing the state's Second Congressional District. Hansen earned a B.A. from the University of Idaho in 1950 and a J.D. from The George Washington University in 1954. He also earned an LLM (awarded in 1973) and a Ph.D. in political science (awarded in 1986) from The George Washington University.

  26. John Piña Craven

    John Piña Craven holds a BA from Cornell University, a MA from the California Institute of Technology, a PhD from the University of Iowa and a J.D. from The National Law Center of The George Washington University. Craven has had more than 40 years of experience in the innovation, development, design, construction and operational deployment of major oceanic systems.

  27. Nabil Mikhail

    Dr. Nabil Mikhail is a very well known Political Scientist in the Baltimore-Washington area. In addition to his research, Mikhail is a part-time professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and The George Washington University. Educated at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; he has a unique perspective on the political climate in the Middle East. Prior to his teaching at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, …

  28. Frank Drew

    Brigadier General Frank Morehead Drew (born 1930) was vice commander, U.S. Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center, TAC, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada He retired on July 1, 1979. General Drew was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School, California, in 1948. After attending Western Kentucky State College for a year, he entered the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, …

  29. Kenneth L. Tallman

    Lieutenant General Kenneth L. Tallman was the eighth Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy. Tallman was born in 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Cheyenne, Wyoming, High School in 1942, and from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1946. He received a master's degree in international affairs from The George Washington University in 1967 and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Wyoming in 1978.

  30. Nematullah Shahrani

    Known as the "teacher of teachers", professor Nematullah Shahrani is one of the most prominent Afghan scholars. He is one of four vice-presidents of the Afghan Transitional Administration and the head of the Afghan Constitution Commission. He has written more than 30 books and several hundred academic articles. He belongs to an academic family that is known in Afghanistan as the family of scholars.

  31. Tristan Louis

    Tristan Louis (born February 28, 1971 in Digne-les-Bains, France) is an author, entrepreneur and blogger who has run the site TNL.net since 1994.

  32. Fenimore Chatterton

    Fenimore Chatterton (July 21 1860-May 9, 1958) was an American businessman, politician, and lawyer. He was the Acting Governor of Wyoming from April 28, 1903 until January 2, 1905. Chatterton was born in Oswego County, New York, but raised in Washington, D.C.. He attended The Columbian College, then Millersville State Normal School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1878 he moved to Sheridan, in Wyoming Territory, and set up as a businessman.

  33. Daniel Inouye

    Daniel Inouye is the eldest son of Japanese immigrants who worked on the Hawaiian sugar plantations where Daniel was born and raised. He lived in what he described as a Japanese-American ghetto. He went to the local Hawaiian school, at which the student body was 90% ethnic Japanese. As a young boy, Daniel accidentally fell and broke his left arm in a terrible compound fracture. The local doctor, an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, set the arm. It mended, but not well.

  34. William S. Fitzgerald

    William Sinton FitzGerald (October 6, 1880-October 3, 1937) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 39th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. FitzGerald was born in Washington, D.C. He received public education and attended George Washington University, graduating with a Master of Laws degree in 1903. The following year, he moved to Cleveland, was admitted to the Ohio bar association, and began practicing law.

  35. Ali al Kaabi

    Ali bin Abdullah Al Kaabi is the current Minister of Labor in the United Arab Emirates. He was appointed in 2004 on the same day of the president Shiekh Zayed's death. He was educated at the The George Washington University in Washington DC. He obtained a Doctor of Science Degree in Engineering Management. He worked for a short time at the UAE Military Office as a computer network administrator after that at the UAE scholarship office in Washington DC.

  36. Vernon Aguirre

    Vernon Aguirre (July 18, 1945) is a Mexican American banker, as well as the Regional Executive for the California Region of Banco Popular, a Hispanic bank based out of Puerto Rico. He lives in Coronado, California with his wife, Cynthia Aguirre. Their only son, Richard Aguirre, attends college at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "Banco Popular is very excited to partner with the L.A. Marathon, …

  37. Wilbur L. Creech

    General Wilbur L. Creech was the commander of Tactical Air Command with headquarters at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The command directs the activities of two numbered air forces, three centers and seven air divisions. More than 111,300 military and civilian personnel are assigned to 32 Tactical Air Command bases in the United States, Panama, Okinawa and Iceland.

  38. Yves Delport

    7+ last years dedicated to Sales, Business Development and Marketing; 7+ years in Consulting, Alliances and Pre-Sales activities; 7+ years in Project Management; 10+ years in the IT industry; 10+ years in the Telecommunications and Internet industry; 10+ years Computer Hardware/Software experience; 7+ years Management & Leadership experience; 3+ years Entrepreneur experience; Strong interest in high tech industry and new technologies; Firm motivation to demonstrate benefits; High . . .

  39. Jason Franklin

    Jason Franklin has a background in social justice organizing and philanthropy, urban policy and development, public education advocacy, and nonprofit strategy and leadership. He serves as Deputy Director of the 21st Century School Fund (21CSF), a DC-based nonprofit engaged in research, advocacy and grantmaking to build the public will and capacity to improve urban public school facilities. He is also a Lecturer on Public Administration and Doctoral Candidate at NYU Wagner.

  40. Donna Hrinak

    Donna Jean Hrinak was the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela from 2000 to 2002 and to Brazil from 2002 to 2004. Hrinak was born in Pennsylvania. After graduating from Michigan State University, she attended George Washington University and the University of Notre Dame School of Law. She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

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