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- November 15, 1999Josh Lincoln is now a father! Josh Lincoln and his wife Monette welcomed Sophie Joan Lincoln into the world on November 7. The Lincolns are still making their home in Brooklyn while Josh continues work on his Fletcher PhD.
- October 21, 1999Sonoko (Kiyotaki) Takahashi is now a mother! Daughter Aiko arrived on August 14, 1999 in Tokyo, weighing in at 6.2 pounds and 19.1 inches.
- October 1, 1999Marc Parrish has made the jump to I.T. Marc is now working as a developer for Charles River Development, a small IT firm in Boston which makes and maintains software products for mutual fund clients.
- October 1, 1999Elinor Sloan is working as a defence analyst in Canada's Dept. of National Defense, where she is focusing on US defense policy issues. She got her Fletcher Ph.D. in 1997 and published a book called "Bosnia and the New Collective Security" (Praeger Publishers) in 1998. Last March she had a baby boy!
- October 1, 1999Karntimon Ruksakiati is working at the Thai embassy in Yangon, Myanmmar (that's Rangoon, Burma for you old timers). Thanks to the current government in Yangon, there is no internet access at all; but Karntimon does make it back to Bangkok from time to time to check his email.
- August 15, 1999Diana Quintero is now the new vice president of marketing at Chase Manhattan Bank. She will be heading up worldwide marketing for the economics division of Chase.
Well, four years out of Fletcher, members of the class of 1995 have continued to do great things. Click on a region below:
Björn Gilsater has moved to Brussels, where the Swedish Ministry of Finance has detailed him to the European Commission to look at the EU's regional policy from a budgetary point of view. Bjorn intends to remain at the Commission until some time before the Swedish EU-presidency, which will be in Spring 2001. Maria Farnon left MCI in Washington in early 1998 to take an internet marketing job with Level 3 Communications in Denver, but left after a mere eight months to do similar work for Level 3 in London. Ricardo Tejada also left Washington D.C. (and the World Bank) for London, where he is now Director of Communications for United News & Media, a British media group. You can check out photos from his wedding at http://website.lineone.net/~dingofrog. Tod Trabocco is also in London, still working at the EBRD on managing private equity investments in Georgian banks. Marcel Feenstra is a publisher of e-commerce newsletters and an organizer of e-commerce events and competitions in the Netherlands. His baby daughter, Laura Marion Nelly, will probably be about a year old by the time this column comes out; you can see a (rather early) photo of her on the class home page. Not satisfied with the level of risk he faces every day in his job with Pioneer Investments in Moscow, Sasha Zakharov took a vacation in the Swiss Alps to go paragliding and bungee jumping. Sasha also went piranha fishing and cayman (crocodile) hunting in the Amazon, having won a sweepstakes trip to Bogota, Columbia and Manaus, Brazil. He also managed to take a vacation in Thailand and a few business trips to Utah, New York, Switzerland and London.
ASIA
Eric Sanderson and Caroline Blume are still in Hong Kong, Caroline at Northern Telecom and Eric at a human resources/benefits consulting firm. They are helping rebuild the Southeast Asian economy by traveling all over for both work and play. Keith Silver continues to work for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he has been for almost three years. (I guess you've gotten used to eating plov and shashlik by now.) Robert Slate is working for the Defense Department in Japan. Aya Nakajima left the U.S. Embassy in February 1998 and joined Standard & Poor's in Tokyo as a credit analyst for Japanese insurance companies. As a part of her training, she traveled to Melbourne, Australia in April, and to New York in September. Sonoko Kiyotaki-Takahashi is working for the Philippines Division of the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, a Japanese governmental agency working with developing countries. Because of the Asian economy crisis, she has been busy offering assistance packages to ASEAN countries.
LATIN AMERICA
Juan Brito left his position as international news editor at "El Mercurio" to become director of a new newspaper that hit the streets in Santiago in January. Juan and his wife, Mili (who is putting her Accords experience to use as a music teacher), are expecting their sixth child. He plays soccer every weekend but misses the Fletcher soccer gang.
NORTH AMERICA
WEST OF THE EAST COAST: Lee Caplan and Christina Kohn tied the knot this past fall in Connecticut. Gluttons for the punishment of grad school, both enrolled at Berkeley Law School. (Lee transferred there after one year at Duke). Kevin Haney reported a while ago that he finished a tour as a crisis action combat planner at the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida and transferred this fall to San Diego, where he was to take over as the air operations officer on the USS John C. Stennis, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. He still hopes to finish that PhD. Before leaving Beijing for San Francisco, Andy Kennedy helped avert a potential diplomatic row during President Clinton's trip to China; Andy prevented a student of his from translating a menu item, referred to as "Black Chicken" in Mandarin, as "crow," thereby avoiding the inevitable headlines about the Chinese government making Clinton "eat crow." (It's those details that count in diplomacy)
BOSTON: Asya Rudkovskaya defended her Fletcher Ph.D. dissertation on "The Islamic Factor in Russia's Search for a National Ideology". She is currently planning a move to Istanbul. Marc Parrish is still with Putnam Investments' investment research department in Boston (almost 3 years now). He's taking some in-depth computer courses, which has paid off for us. Marc is the webmaster of the Class of 1995 home page. Check it out sometime. Farah Pandith is working for ML Strategies, the Boston-based consulting affiliate of a large law firm with offices in both Washington and Boston. Farah handles the international end of the company, which consults on healthcare, governmental relations, environment, and infrastructure development.
NEW YORK: Alice Hurley is still slogging away at the Federal Reserve Bank. Linda Maguire left the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Washington to move to New York, where she is working for the Management Development and Governance Division of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Linda works on a team that focuses on governance and reconciliation in "crisis countries." (Sounds like a busy job.) She works with another Fletcher grad, Jose Cruz-Osorio, F??. Felicia Swindells passed the bar and is slaving away at White and Case. Debbie Isser got married in both Albany, NY and Paris last summer to a fella she met while clerking for the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Mi Ae Geoum is still working at KEDO and has begun a political science PhD program at the City University of New York.
WASHINGTON: Christian Hougen is critiquing government policy at the national security division of the General Accounting Office's (an arm of the U.S. Congress). He's traveled to Europe on two separate projects, including an investigation of the consequences of EMU implementation, EU expansion, and domestic budgetary pressures on NATO allies' defense spending. Christian is enjoying married life with wife Haiman and daughter Helen. You can see photos of the wedding at http://www.erols.com/kornball/ . Duncan Hollis left the International Department of law firm Steptoe & Johnson in March 1998 to join the Department of State's Legal Adviser's Office. ("L" to those in the know.) Duncan covers the legal aspects of the myriad contract, real estate and security issues that face U.S. embassies overseas and has traveled (so far) to Germany, Jamaica, Kenya and the Netherlands. State "L" also employs two other members of the Fletcher '95 mafia, Sheba Crocker and Jen Gergen. Mark Baker is the NAFTA coordinator in the Commerce Department's Office of NAFTA and Inter-American Affairs. Part of his job has him serving on the U.S. negotiating teams for the market access and government procurement negotiation groups for the Free Trade Area of the Americas. With his new Miata (his 30th birthday present to himself), he claims (ever so modestly) that he can now "frequently be found driving down 17th Street turning heads, instead of walking down 17th Street turning heads." Erin Conaton is researching all the issues which affect U.S. national security at the Department of Defense National Security Studies Group, a congressionally-created organization which is considering how to restructure the foreign policy decision-making process. Evelyn Farkas teaches at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia (along with Lt. Col. John Kruse, F'94).
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