The Antonian

THE ANTONIAN

2000s

Thomas O’Keefe (MPhil Latin American Studies, 1990) has stepped down as President of Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd. after 32 years at the helm and launched Indigenous ADR based in Washington, D.C. to facilitate consultation and resolve social conflicts between natural resource extraction companies and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas. Professor George Pagoulatos (DPhil Politics, 1993) is the Ambassador of Greece to the OECD. Sarah Poralla (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1995) is Aviation Safety Risk Manager for Aerodromes, Ground Handling and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, in the Directorate for Safety Management at the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Mr Paul Riseborough (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1999) has been appointed Managing Partner at Capco UK, a global management consultancy. Marianne Scordel (MSt Oriental Studies, 1998) recently moved to the nonprofit sector after a career of 24 years spent in financial services where she won multiple awards. In November 2024 she was appointed Executive Director of the Paris Brain Institute America, located in New York, USA. Neena Shenai (MPhil International Relations, 1998) joined the law firm of WilmerHale as a partner in the International Trade, Investment and Market Access group in Washington, D.C. She focuses her practice on trade policy, sanctions and export controls. Charles Asher Small (DPhil Social Theory, 1996) has been appointed Research Fellow at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University; is Director of the Postdoctorate Fellowship Training Programme in Contemporary

Critical Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge; is Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is also heading an international research project that assesses how and why genocidal antisemitism has become part, once again, of western intellectual and scholarly discourse. Neil Sternthal (MSt Modern History, 1992) has been appointed as President & CEO of ACAMS, the leading global membership organization for the anti-financial crime sector. ACAMS provides training, certifications, intelligence, thought leadership, and conferences on money laundering, fraud, and sanctions for regulators, banks, fintech, law enforcement, tech vendors, professional services, and consultants. He will be relocating to Washington D.C. in the New Year. Mr Krzysztof Szubert (International Relations, 1992; Research at the European Studies Centre, 2020) is an Associate Member of the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) at the University of Oxford. Mr Ivelin Zvezdov (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1994) works on natural and man-made catastrophe modelling and product development for the (re)insurance industry. His professional career of twenty- five years has developed in the financial and insurance industries with leadership roles in mathematical modelling and management for corporate, extreme, and catastrophic risks. He does research and writes on catastrophic risk, shocks and disaster, social fragility, and contagion from both the mathematical risk and moral philosophy aspects.

Geoffrey Politics Comparative Government, 2006) is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph. Cameron (MPhil Jonathan Dingel (MPhil Economics, 2006) is joining Columbia University as a tenured Associate Professor of Economics. He and his wife Amy will move to New York City in 2025. Associate Professor David Eaves (MPhil International Relations, 2000) has been appointed by the UK Government to its expert panel to help create a 10-year vision digital government to help drive innovation, transform services, improve lives, and unlock the full potential of digital and data. Tressa Guenov (MSc Politics Research, 2002) recently completed service as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the Pentagon. She now serves as Senior Fellow and Director of Programs and Operations at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Professor Steven Haines (Senior Associate Member, 2000-2001) has been appointed to the UN Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Expert Panel; became a Member of the International Law Association Committee on the Protection of People at Sea; Member of the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association Human Rights and Rule of Law Committee. He relinquished his long-standing (2014-25) role as a Trustee of the NGO Human Rights at Sea but remains engaged in advocacy for the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea.

Professor (Senior Associate Member, 2004-2005) has taken up a professorship of constitutional and administrative law in Yasuda Women’s University in Hiroshima since April 2024. Omi Hatashin Nino Japaridze (DPhil Politics, 2006) has been unanimously elected as the third President of the American Friends of Georgia, a charitable foundation dedicated to improving the lives of the most vulnerable populations in the Republic of Georgia. Isaac Kardon (MPhil Modern Chinese Studies, 2007) started a new position last year as Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.; and also started a new role as adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS. John Maher (Academic Visitor, 2008-2009) is Professor of Linguistics, Temple University, Japan. Professor Arzu Öztürkmen (Academic Visitor, 2005) is serving as Director of the Asian Studies Center at Boğaziçi University. Justin Pearce (DPhil Politics, 2006) has been appointed senior editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies. He is still a senior lecturer in history at Stellenbosch University. Manolo Reynaud (MSc Latin American Studies, 2008) has been appointed Senior Director for Corporate Affairs at Walmart Mexico and Central America, in charge of public policy and sustainability.

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