Alison Friedman
Alison Kiehl Friedman is Executive Director of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, and alongtime activist on human traf
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cking. She served as Deputy Director in the State Department’s Of
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ce toMonitor and Combat Traf
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cking in Persons in the Obama administration, where she managed over $50 millionin federal grants and US interagency processes to combat human traf
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cking. She previously co-founded ASSET,an organization that addressed human traf
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cking in global supply chains, where she helped author theCalifornia Transparency in Supply Chains law. She also previously worked for California Representative JaneHarman, where she managed security and transportation challenges around major ports and LAX. Friedmanholds a B.A. from Stanford University.
Education:
B.A., Political Science and Government, Stanford University, 2002; M.B.A., Oxford University, Saïd Business School, 2017
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US House of Representatives, Of
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ce of Jane Harman (District Director) US Department of State, Of
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ce to Monitor and Combat Traf
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cking in Persons (Deputy Director) International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (Executive Director) Free the Slaves (Interim Executive Director) The Global Fund to End Slavery (Vice President) Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Traf
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cking (Executive Director) People for the American Way (San Francisco Of
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ce Director, California Policy Director, Legislative Coordinator) Gore/Lieberman 2000 (National Student Director)
Key Publications:
Thompson Reuters Foundation News, "Trump does not need a wall to prevent human traf
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cking" (2019)
CV:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-friedman-3137501/
Speaking Appearance (ex.):
NPR's The Takeaway, "U.S. plans stepped up efforts to combat human traf
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cking," Speaker Duke Law School, "Rethinking Essential: Business, Work, and Human Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic," Speaker Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Youth and Human Rights," Panelist
Amir Handjani
Amir Handjani is an energy lawyer and Senior Advisor at KARV Communications, a strategic communicationsand public affairs
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rm. Handjani is an expert on US-Iran relations, the Iran nuclear deal, Persian Gulf security,global energy security, and the implementation of US sanctions. He was a founding General Counsel of RAKPetroleum PCL, an exploration and production company, where he sits on the Board of Directors. Handjani waspreviously a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and continues to serve on the Executive Committee. He isalso a Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Security Fellow with the Truman NationalSecurity Project, and a member of the Finance Committee for Foreign Policy For America. He is regularly citedand published in outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal,and Foreign Affairs. Early in his career, Handjani was Associate Chief Council at the US Department of Justice.He is
uent in English, Farsi, and Turkish. Handjani holds a J.D. from Northeastern University.
Amy Woolf
Amy Woolf is a Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of theCongressional Research Service at the Library of Congress. Woolf provides Congress with information,analysis, and support on US and Russian nuclear forces and arms control. Woolf was a member of the ResearchStaff at the Institute for Defense Analyses and served in the Department of Defense on the 1994 Nuclear PostureReview. She has authored studies on the US-Russian arms control agenda, nuclear weapons doctrine, nuclearforce structure, and hypersonic weapons. Woolf has spoken at conferences and workshops on US nuclear weapons policy and congressional views on ballistic missile defenses and arms control. Woolf’s work has beenpublished by the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has alsoappeared in The Hill, Foreign Policy, Air Force Magazine, Arms Control Today, War on the Rocks, Russia Matters,National Interest, Cato Institute, Forbes, Time, and CNBC. Woolf holds a B.A. from Stanford and an M.P.P. fromHarvard.
Education:
M.P.P., Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; A.B., Political Science, Stanford University
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Library of Congress (Specialist in Nuclear Policy); Georgetown University (Adjunct Assistant Professor); Institute for Defense Analyses (Researcher);US Department of Defense (Employed)
Key Publications:
Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization (2020) Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues (2020) U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background (2020) See more (2020) See more (2017)
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Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment, the U.S. House of Representatives and theCommission on Security and Cooperation in Europe U.S. Joint Committee hearing on, “The Importance of the Open Skies Treaty” (2019)
Speaking Appearance (ex.):
Hypersonic Missiles: Assessing the Bene
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ts and Risks Risks (2019) Arms Control Association Annual Meeting, “Global Nuclear Challenges and Solutions for the Next U.S. President” (2016) The Role of Congress in Nuclear Weapons Policy and Programs at the Center for Global Security Research.