
Graduate Alumni Profiles

Cara Abercrombie
MPA '03
Country Director for India, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Washington, D.C.

Shardul Agrawala
MPA '96, PhD '99
Principal Economist, Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Outlooks Division, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Environment Directorate, Paris, France

J. Alexander Boston
MPA/JD '93
Country Director, Peace Corps, Amman, Jordan

Robert Brenner
WWS ’75, MPA '77
Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Review, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Julius Coles
M.P.A. ’66
President, Africare, Washington, D.C.
Co-chair, Woodrow Wilson School Advisory Committee

Newsha Dau
MPA/URP '05
Special Assistant to the Director, Citywide Traffic Services Group, District of Columbia Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.

Keith Hansen
MPA/JD '87
Health Sector Manager, Latin America and the Caribbean, The World Bank

José Huizar
MPA/URP '94
Councilmember, 14th District, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.; Trustee, Princeton University

Laura Jaramillo Mayor
MPA '02
Economist, International Monetary Fund

Leonard Lance
MPA '82
Senator (R), New Jersey Legislative District 23, Senate Minority Leader, Trenton, N.J.

Hilary D. Mathews
MPA '05
Presidential Management Fellow/International Health Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Global Health Affairs, Washington, DC

David H. McCormick
M.P.A. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Undersecretary of International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.

Pavel Misiga
MPP '06
Administrator, European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy, Brussels, Belgium

Herro Mustafa
MPA '97
Director for Iran, National Security Council, Washington, D.C.

Thomas Nelson
MPA '04
Representative (D), Wisconsin State Assembly, 5th District, Madison, Wisc.

Lisette Nieves
MPA '01
Executive Director, Year Up New York City, New York, NY

Jill Nishi
MPA-URP '95
Program Manager, U.S. Libraries Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA

Robert C. Orr
MPA '92, PhD '96
Assistant Secretary-General for Policy and Planning, United Nations, New York, NY

Debbie Peikes
WWS '93, MPA '97, PhD '00
Senior Researcher (Health Policy and Economics), Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, N.J.; Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School (teaching WWS 515b/c Program and Policy Evaluation)

David H. Petraeus
MPA '85, PhD '87
Commanding General, Multi-National Force–Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Mark Quarterman
MPA '87
Senior Legal Officer, Office of the Legal Counsel, United Nations, New York, NY

Heidi Gómez Rápalo
MPA '98
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tim Reif
WWS ’80, M.P.A./J.D. ’85
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Trade, House Ways and Means Committee, Washington, D.C.

Maria Rodriguez
M.P.A.-U.R.P. ’05
Bank Examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, N.Y.

Steven Siqueira
MPP '05
Policy Advisor, Asia-Pacific Region, Office of the Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs, United Nations, New York, N.Y.

Bruno Stagno
MPP '01
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Laura Taylor-Kale
MPA '03
Foreign Service Officer/Political Officer, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Abidjian, Cote d'Ivoire

Darci Vetter
MPA '00
Director for Agricultural Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, DC

Lynne Weil
MPP '01
Communications Director, Majority Staff, House Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.

Jennifer L. Windsor
MPA '91
Executive Director, Freedom House, Washington, DC

