Person Type: Associate World Fellow
Edward "Ted" Wittenstein
Edward (“Ted”) Wittenstein is a Senior Lecturer in Global Affairs and Director of the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power, a signature teaching and research initiative of the Jackson School that examines how AI has the potential to alter fundamental building blocks of world order.  A former diplomat and intelligence professional, Ted teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses on intelligence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, national security decision-making, and the outer space domain. He also serves as Co-Director of the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy and the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, as well as a visiting faculty fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges. Ted is a graduate of…
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Erin Walsh
Erin Walsh is a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where she researched ways to enhance the resilience and adaptive capacity of urban infrastructure systems in the face of major disruptions by natural hazards, both episodic and lasting. Prior to coming to Yale, Erin worked as a consultant in energy and defense-related areas. A native of Washington, D.C., she received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton and her Master's degree in environmental management from Yale.
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Joel Steinhaus
Joel Steinhaus is an entrepreneur and non-profit leader. He is the former Head of Strategic Initiatives at WeWork and former Managing Director and Chief of Staff to the Chairman at Citigroup. Joel helped launch NBC News' Education Nation, a multi-media enterprise focused on engaging the public in a conversation about improving education in the U.S. He is Chairman of the hundred year-old non-profit New Yorkers for Parks and is a Trustee of uAspire, a national non-profit focused on college affordability. Joel is currently a member of the Economic Club of New York and a former term member at the Council of Foreign Relations. In 2014, he was named a David…
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Katherine G. Southwick
Katherine G. Southwick is the Senior Genocide Prevention Adviser on a project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the role of domestic criminal justice systems in atrocity prevention. Katherine previously worked for a decade on human rights, humanitarian advocacy and statelessness, and legal reform in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Katherine worked for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Washington D.C. and the Philippines on programs relating to judicial reform, anti-trafficking in persons and the ASEAN human rights system. She also clerked for the late Hon. Charles P. Sifton in the Eastern District of New York and practiced international arbitration. She was…
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Debra Shushan
Debra Shushan is Director of Government Affairs at J Street, where she manages the advocacy operations and activities of the Government Affairs team. As an analyst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and US foreign policy, Debra honed her expertise as the director of policy and government relations at Americans for Peace Now. Prior to that, Debra was an assistant professor of government at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, where she focused on the comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East, including the Gulf states. She was also a research fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. Debra's research and language…
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Josh Rubin
Josh Rubin is Director for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Prior to joining the National Security Council, Josh was Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State at the U.S. Department of State, where he served as traveling chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary on diplomatic missions to over thirty countries. Josh joined the Biden-Harris Administration on January 20, 2021 after serving on President-Elect Biden's transition team in 2020. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Josh was a special assistant in the office of Secretary of State John Kerry and previously served as speechwriter to the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. Josh received a J.D….
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Brian LoBue
Brian LoBue is Co-Founder and Director of Kokoa Kamili Ltd. in Tanzania. Kokoa Kamili is a social enterprise focused on providing the highest quality Tanzanian organic cocoa to premium chocolate manufacturers while paying local farmers the highest prices for their cocoa. Previously, he was manager of the Enterprise Development Unit with TechnoServe in Tanzania where he worked with a team of local business consultants and food technologists to sustainably increase the profits of medium-sized food processors and improve the quality of their products. Prior to TechnoServe, Brian was a Senior Consultant in the Management Consulting practice at BearingPoint, Inc. in McLean, Virginia. Before attending the Yale School of Management, Brian…
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Scott Kleeb
Scott Kleeb is Director at Morgan Ranch Beef International, a cattle farm in Nebraska. He previously ran as a Democrat for the United States Congress in 2006 and 2008 on a platform advocating more assistance for education programs and aid to family farms, energy independence, and a healthcare reform. Before entering politics, Scott was the CEO and President of Energy Pioneer Solutions, a company focused on energy efficiency for homeowners and utility companies. Born in Turkey and raised in Italy, Scott has worked on campaign politics in New Mexico and also worked at the United Nations. Earning a PhD in history from Yale, Scott studied the international influences, both cultural…
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Stephen B. Kaplan
Stephen B. Kaplan is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. His research examines the politics of global finance and development, the political economy of Asian-Latin America relations, and Latin American politics. His book, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America, explores the relationship between global market indebtedness and national economic policy making. The book offers important lessons for understanding the ongoing economic crises in the U.S. and Europe, as well as the politics of reform in developing countries. Stephen was the recipient of the 2010 Mancur Olson Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Economy and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Niehaus Globalization and…
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Courtney Hostetler
Courtney Hostetler is Counsel at Free Speech for People, an organization working to fight big money and unchecked corporate power in politics. She was previously a legal fellow with the ACLU of Massachusetts, working on school-to-prison pipeline issues and the criminalization of school discipline. Courtney graduated from Yale Law School in 2011 and afterwards clerked for Judge James Dennis of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. While at Yale, she participated in human rights fact-finding missions in Tanzania and Senegal and worked on U.S. prison reform projects. Prior to attending to law school, she managed the Close Up Foundation's national youth voting program and worked as a…
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