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- March 5, 1999Tim Mak is a comercial lawyer in Sydney, Australia. Tim got his LLM from Columbia after his Fletcher degree.
- February 19, 1999Fernando Gonzalez Saiffe is working at the Mexican Foreign Ministry in the Undersecretariat for the United Nations, Africa and Carribbean Affairs. Fernando is also Director for International Relations at the Anahuac University in Mexico City.
- October 1, 1998Juan Villalobos is the Assistant General Counsel for Bufete Industrial, Mexico's 2nd largest construction and engineering firm. Juan is also a partner with Emilio Cano in a small environmental firm. Juan got married in March of 1998.
- August 24, 1998Mark Baker has accepted a position in the US Dept. of Commerce Office of Inter-American affairs. Mark will be working on NAFTA resolution issues, and will be a senior advisor on the USDOC for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations.
- June 21, 1998Tod Trabocco has been in London since late 1996, working for the EBRD. Todd works on the Financial Institutions desk, where he does syndicated loans, senior debt, and venture capital work with banks in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Hungary.
- May 15, 1998Marcel Feenstra and his wife Maria have a new addition to the family! Laura Marion Nelly was born on May 1st, weighing 4140 grams (Hey, I guess that's about average). Click here to see a photo of Laura.
- May 15, 1998Aya Nakajima has left the U.S. Embassy, and has accepted a job as an insurance sector analyst at Standard & Poor's in Tokyo.
- May 10, 1998Sunoko Kiyotaki-Takahashi is working for the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, a Japanese governmental agency dealing with official development assistance towards developing countries. Sunoko is in the Philippines and Oceanian Countries Division, overseeing several sectors within the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. She also recently got married, in June of 1997.
- April 30, 1998Kevin Haney is a crisis action combat planner at CENTCOM in Tampa. Kevin will be transferring this fall to the USS John C. Stennis, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, where he will take over as air operations officer. He and his wife Blair are expecting their third child in August.
- April 30, 1998Christina Kohn is now working for the U.S. EPA in North Carolina, primarily on a U.S.-Canada transboundary air pollution project for the International Joint Commission. Christina is planning on entering an environmental law program at either Duke or Berkeley; she is also a finalist for an EPA Fellowship for Graduate Environmental Study.
- January 30, 1998Karen Hultgren-Bruce manages the marketing activities of Eva Maddox Associates, an interior architecture and design services company in Chicago. Karen married Staven Bruce in the fall of 1996.
EUROPE/FORMER SOVIET UNION
Lisa Levasseur spends her days in the Emerging
Markets Division of the Economic Research Department of the Union Bank of
Switzerland in Zurich. Catholic Relief Services has made Maura Lynch into quite the frequent flier. She now manages grants for UNHCR's Trust Fund for
Local Integration in Armenia but recently did a short stint writing proposals
for reconstruction projects with CRS/Lebanon. By the time this appears, she
will already have spent two weeks in Ethiopia and taken up her new post in
Sarajevo as CRS's Assistant Country Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She
has yet to figure out how to mountain bike or rollerblade with all the
landmines.
Fiona Wilson has traveled extensively throughout eastern and
southern Africa. She will spend late fall marketing oral contraceptives from
PSI's London and Dar es Salaam offices before moving to St. Petersburg to take
up post as PSI's Russia country director. She will be responsible for
establishing a social marketing project aimed at improving adolescent
reproductive health and for overseeing existing projects in Ekaterinburg.
Joel Rehnstrom is a policy and evaluation specialist for the UN Volunteers
program in Geneva. Andrew Bovarnick, still working at Environmental Resources Management in London, has been working on environmental management and social development
issues for the IFC (part of the World Bank). His work recently took him to
Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam and Brazil. Sasha Zakharov is still with Pioneer Investments in Moscow, traveling to the U.S. and the U.K. quite a bit. Sasha reports that he convinced Henry Peacock, F'94, to work for Pioneer over a few beers. I don't remember any of my interviews going like that.......
ASIA/PACIFIC
Caroline Blume and Eric Sanderson were married on May 17 in Villanova, Pennsylvania. More than a dozen Fletcherites were in attendance.
(Check out the photo on the class web page.) Back in Hong Kong, Caroline
works on special events for Northern Telecom, and Eric works for Hewitt
Associates, a human resources and benefits consulting firm. Andy Kennedy left
the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) in Hong Kong in April and
took off for Beijing, where he now lives and teaches at the Foreign Affairs
College. He also writes for the Economist Intelligence Unit, which has taken
him to Shanghai and Chengdu. Andy decided to flee the Beijing crowds for the
Hong Kong handover and watched the festivities on TV from his hotel room in
Lhasa, Tibet. He is learning (slowly) to play the erhu (a violin-type
instrument), but doesn't expect to release his CD for quite a while.
Brigitte Smith is back in Australia and working in venture capital. She reports that she just ran her first (and only) marathon. Bo Tedards is putting together
conferences for a think tank in Taipei and also working with a human rights
NGO.
AFRICA
Diane Tausner moved from Kiev to Johannesburg, where she is working on a host of local and parliamentary government programs for NDI.
LATIN AMERICA
Juan Brito writes from Santiago that El Nino has been great for skiing in Chile (so everyone stop bitching about it, already). He is still
international news editor at Santiago's El Mercurio newspaper, where he had
the chance to cover the July 6 legislative elections in Mexico and plans to
cover the Pope's January 1998 visit to Cuba. One of his articles was
translated and published by the World Press Review, an American monthly that
reproduces articles from all around the world. Juan adds that he has
completely abandoned tennis since he left his racket in Boston.
NEW YORK
Felicia Swindells is Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham International Law Journal and is looking forward to graduating and FINALLY
entering the working world after 5 consecutive years in graduate school. Mi Ae Geoum continues to work as a policy planning officer at the Korean Energy
Development Organization (KEDO). Alice Hurley continues her devoted service
to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Diana Quintero made the leap from
CNBC and is writing and producing segments at NBC News. Dave Schwimmer
practices law at Davis Polk. Josh Lincoln is finishing his PhD in the Big
Apple, where his wife, Monette, is working at the United Nations.
BOSTON
Matt Levitt is a Graduate Research Fellow at The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he is spending what he hopes will be
the fifth and final year of the Fletcher PhD process. He spent the summer of
1997 conducting interviews in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Erin Conaton is
also still slugging out the PhD at Fletcher. Her fifth year on Student
Council has inspired debates on term limits. Erin was one of 50 women invited
to a March 1997 International Women's Day conference in Washington with
Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright, as well as a summer 1997 conference on
"Women in Democracy" in Vienna; other members of the U.S. delegation to Vienna
were Sandra Day O'Connor and (again) Hillary Clinton. Erin reports that Mrs.
Clinton had very positive things to say about Fletcher.
Anthony Chase passed his Ph.D comps with high distinction last spring, spent the summer at Middlebury doing more Arabic, and is now teaching at Wheaton College and
working on his dissertation. Recent publications include "The Palestinian
Authority Draft Constitution: Possibilities and Realities in the Search for
Alternative Models of State Formation", which was a result of a summer's
research based in Jerusalem at the Israeli-Palestinian Center for Research and
Information. The sole wage earner of this Boston Bunch, Marc Parrish is an
analyst in Putnam's Performance & Analytics Department, which works closely
with Marketing & Fund Management to provide risk and return-related
information on any and every mutual fund, security, index, etc. More
importantly, he is the webmaster of the Fletcher Class of 1995 home page.
WASHINGTON
Was that Peggy Lee at the Dupont Circle Holloween drag races, or
Mark Baker? Mark got away from his busy day at the Department of Commerce's
Advocacy Center in Washington to run for the gold in a platinum blonde wig, a
lime green double-knit sleeveless dress, and (ever so practical) white vinyl
high heels. Check out the photo on the class web page. Mark did a brief
stint as the Acting U.S. Commercial Officer in Rio de Janeiro in August and
September (rough life) and reports that he bought a faaaaaabulous condo in DC.
Jenny Lovitt-Riggs works at Booz Allen & Hamilton in a government consulting
unit with four other Fletcher grads. Christian Hougen, back from Japan, is
working as an evaluator in the National Security and International Affairs
Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office and enjoying life in Arlington.
Evelyn Farkas is teaching at the Marine Corps Staff College in Quantico,
Virginia, where she shares cawfee hour with fellow faculty member Lt. Col.
John Kruse, F'94. Linda Maguire continues to cover West Africa in NDI's
Washington office.
Maria Farnon continues to do internet marketing at MCI.
Duncan Hollis is an associate in the international group of Steptoe &
Johnson's Washington office, where he works on public international law and
international trade litigation. He keeps his annotated Rubin syllabus with him
at work. (I might add that Duncan hit me up for my L200 notes during his
first week at the firm.) Jen Gergen left Hogan and Hartson for a job at the
State Department's Legal Advisor's office. Sheba Crocker, finished a
clerkshipo in California and joined Jen at State "L," where she covers
sanctions issues. After receiving an performance award from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Desiree Fillipone took on OMB's portfolio for
the Economic Support Fund (foreign aid for Israel and Egypt) and IMF programs.
Finally, yours truly, Larry Hanauer, finished his PMI tour at the Pentagon,
but not before spending two months working with the U.S. Defense Attache in
Dakar, Senegal. Delivering humanitarian assistance (including 300 pairs of
flip-flops) to a Senegalese village that had burned down was definitely a
highlight, as was two weeks of driving through the Sahara Desert to visit
military facilities throughout Mauritania, including the mobile "headquarters"
of the Mauritanian Army Camel Corps. He is now the country director for
Poland, Bulgaria and Croatia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where,
among other things, he coordinates DoD programs to assist Poland's
preparations for NATO membership. Larry is also the head schmoozer and
president of the Fletcher Alumni Association of Washington.
OUTSIDE THE NORTHEAST CORRIDOR
Yvonne Agyei married Eric Rosenberg in Hawaii
on April 13, 1997 and honeymooned in Italy in October. Yvonne is giving away
money and jobs (call now!) at the human resources department of Excite! in San
Francisco. Daniel Grunberg married Clara Krivoy on February 23, 1997. He is
working with Illinova Generating Company, a sister company of Illinois Power,
to finance power projects in Latin America. Olaf Groth finished his PhD at
Fletcher in January 1997 and is working on the "Globalstar" Global Mobile
Satellite Services (GMSS) project for AirTouch International. As Director for
International Territory Development, he manages relationships with joint
venture partners in Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia and travels regularly to
Asia. His fiancee, Strausie Markham, is an associate consultant with DeCandia,
a cross-cultural communications and international organizational development
firm. They are living on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.
Lee Caplan began law school at Duke and proposed to Christina Kohn (she said yes). She must have taken advice from Martha Bory, who reports that "married life is absolutely incredible. Everyone should try it." Martha is still working at
the University of Connecticut Business School in Storrs, CT, and welcomes
visitors to cow country.
That's all the news for now. Stay in touch!
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