Team

Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities. Ambassador...

Caitlin Battey is the Program Assistant for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. As Program Assistant, Ms. Battey supports the Senior Director, Program Manager and Program Coordinator,...

Erik Brattberg serves as Director for Special Projects and Senior Fellow at The McCain Institute for International Leadership in Washington. Among his responsibilities at the Institute is developing...

Nicole Brown is the Fiscal Specialist for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. Prior to joining the Institute, Ms. Brown worked at the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of...

David Campbell is the Program Coordinator of the Rule of Law and Governance Program at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, based at The McCain Institute for International...

Paul Fagan is the Director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Program for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Eastern Congo...

Liz Fontaine is the Director of Communications and Programming at The McCain Institute for International Leadership. Before joining the Institute, she was the Creative Director at the Center for a...

Anna Franko is the Communications Associate for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. In this role, Ms. Franko supports the Director of Communications, working to develop and advance The...

Lieutenant General Benjamin C. Freakley serves as the Professor of Practice of Leadership for Arizona State University and as a Special Advisor to ASU President Michael Crow for Leadership...

Julia Fromholz serves as Director of the Rule of Law and Governance Program at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, based at The McCain Institute in Washington, DC. Before...

Thomas Hall joins The McCain Institute for International Leadership as the Sr. Instructional Technical Analyst. He comes from the private sector where he has over 15 years of experience working as a...

Ethan B. Kapstein is Senior Director for Research and Decision Analysis at The McCain Institute for International Leadership and Arizona Centennial Professor of International Affairs at the School of...

Monica Vegas Kladakis has spent most of her career advancing democracy, governance and development globally. Currently, she is working as a Senior Advisor for The McCain Institute for International...

David J. Kramer joined The McCain Institute as Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy in November 2014. Before that, he served for four years as President of Freedom House. Prior to that, he...

Charlotte Lapp is the Anti-Trafficking Program Coordinator for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. As Program Coordinator, Ms. Lapp works with the Institute’s Strategic Advisor, the...

Meghan Latcovich is the Strategic Advisor at The McCain Institute. Prior to this position, Ms. Latcovich was Director of Communications and Programming at the Institute for two years. Before joining...

Claire Sechler Merkel is the Director of Arizona Initiatives for The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University. She served as Director of Friends and Family and...

Lindsay Murphy serves as the Senior Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinator for The McCain Institute. In this role she supports the Director of Arizona Initiatives to further the Institute’s anti-human...

Chasta Piatakovas is the executive assistant as well as the office manager at The McCain Institute for International Leadership. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked in the European Department...

Ambassador Polt assumed his new position as Senior Director of the Institute on October 1, 2012, after concluding his 35-year diplomatic career and following his most recent assignment as Ambassador...

Garrett Schori is the Program Manager for The McCain Institute for International Leadership’s Next Generation Leaders (NGL) Program. In his current capacity, he works directly with Senior Staff,...

Rachel Spera is the Program Coordinator for The McCain Institute for International Leadership. As Program Coordinator, Ms. Spera supports the Senior Director, working on both the Washington Policy...

Prior to joining the Institute, Ms. Voloshin spent nearly six years at the Washington think tank Atlantic Council, serving the past three years as its Director of Outreach and Public Programs. She was...

Ambassador Clint Williamson is the Senior Director for Rule of Law, Governance and Security at The McCain Institute and a Professor of Practice at the Sandra Day O’Connor Law School at Arizona State...