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	MARINA AYVAZYAN Marina Ayvazyan worked in Russia at the Moscow office of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) in product development and administration from 2000-2008. She earned her Diploma in English and Russian Language and Literature from the Bryusov Institute of Foreign Languages in Yerevan, Armenia. She is currently a Muskie Fellow and expects to complete the EMPA/IR joint masters degree at the Maxwell School in December 2009. She has been studying non-profit management and human resources management at Maxwell and her research with the TNGO Initiative focuses on TNGO networks and partnerships.

	TOSCA BRUNO-VAN VIJFEIJKEN Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken is Director for Education and Practitioner Engagement of the Transnational NGO Initiative at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. She also teaches a graduate level course on Governance and Global Civil Society at the Maxwell School. Recently, she has advised Proliteracy, the largest adult literacy promotion NGO, based in Syracuse, and she currently serves on its board. As a former practitioner, Tosca worked at the European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in the Netherlands from 1987-1992. She worked on grassroots democracy and human rights issues when serving as UN District Electoral Supervisor in Cambodia during the UNTAC peacekeeping operation (1992-1993). This experience was supplemented with assignments for UNDP and the US NGO PACT, both in Cambodia (1993-1994). Later, Tosca worked for six years at the World Bank (1995-2001). At the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC she was responsible for overseeing the ‘mainstreaming’ of public participation approaches (including the involvement of civil society organizations) throughout the World Bank’s operations and policy work in East Asia. From 1997-2001, she was based in Vietnam, where she spearheaded the World Bank’s social development agenda, coordinated the Bank’s dialogue and collaboration with NGOs, and led the Bank’s policy dialogue with the Government of Vietnam on civil society matters.

	UWE GNEITING Uwe.

	MARGARET HERMANN Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School. Her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and has such data on over 150 leaders. She is currently involved in exploring the effects of different types of leaders and decision processes on the management of crises that cross borders and boundaries as well as in a large interview study of the governance challenges facing the leaders of transnational non-governmental organizations. She has been president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies Association (ISA) as well as editor of the journal, Political Psychology. At present she is editor of the International Studies Review, a journal of the ISA, and Advances in Political Psychology, an annual sponsored by ISPP. She developed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. Her books include The Psychological Examination of Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Among her journal articles are “Presidents, Advisers, and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,” “Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from Political Psychology,” “International Decision Making: Leadership Matters,” “Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of Bullets and Bombs,” and “The US Use of Military Intervention to Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record.” Hermann received her Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.

	JESSE LECY Jesse Lecy worked in the field of humanitarian relief prior to attending graduate school. He earned masters degrees in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon and applied statistics from Syracuse University, and is currently finishing a PhD in Social Science at the Maxwell School. His research focuses on discerning how structural components of civil society, such as resource constraints and accountability measures, create incentive systems that influence transnational NGO behavior and performance. He takes a governance perspective while emphasizing contract theory and organizational ecology in order to understand the mechanics of the “marketplace for grants.” He has also worked on empirical issues of poverty measurement and statistical modeling of community development outcomes.

	INES MERGEL Ines Mergel (personal website) is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on Networked Governance, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She received a Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) from the University of St. Gallen Institute of Management in Switzerland, where she studied Information Management. Ines studied Business Economics at the University of Kassel, Germany and the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, with a focus on Knowledge Management. Ines' research focuses on informal social networks among public managers as well as the diffusion and adoption of new media, especially Web 2.0 and social networking applications in the public sector as mechanisms for information sharing. In the TNGO project, she works with Hans Peter Schmitz to understand how TNGOs are using their networks and partnerships and with Paloma Raggo on the use of social media to increase TNGO accountability.

	GEORGE E. MITCHELL George E. Mitchell (personal website) is a PhD candidate in political science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He holds MAs in economics and political science from Syracuse University and a BS in economics from West Virginia University. He is a graduate of the 2008 Summer Institute in Political Psychology at Stanford University and is a 2009 Goekjian Scholar. He has been a research assistant with the Transnational NGO Initiative at the Moynihan Institute in Syracuse, NY and a consultant for the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the Maxwell School he was a research analyst for KBR/Halliburton in the Middle East. He has authored numerous articles about transnational NGOs, project finance, e-governance and other topics. His current research employs latent class modeling to explore how TNGO leaders conceptualize organizational effectiveness and related constructs.

	CHRISTIANE PAGÉ Christiane Pagé is a Ph. D. candidate in Maxwell's interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Social Sciences. Her dissertation proposal is a political psychology assessment of how TNGO leaders’ methods for dealing with constraints link their decision-making to actual political behavior. She has published in the area of domestic and transnational policy and advocacy networks in communication/information policy and communication rights. As a Research Associate on the Transnational NGO Initiative of the Moynihan Institute over the past four years, she has been responsible for training and coordinating the first wave of student interviewers, conducted numerous in-depth interviews with transnational NGO leaders, coordinated the intensive year long data coding project for the Principal Investigator and co-PIs, and is creating a leadership style dataset for the project. She is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Civil Society and Social Transformation. In 2008, she founded the political psychology working group (Ph.D. and faculty seminars) at the Moynihan Institute. As of August 2009, she has been working as the research assistant and development staff for the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Initiative of the Institute of National Security and Counterterrorism (joint Moynihan, PARCC and Law School Institute). Christiane holds a B.A. in political science and history from the Ottawa University, Canada and a masters degree in communication management from Syracuse University. Prior to her Ph.D. studies, Christiane was a visiting professor of Public Relations at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and prior to that, the Director of Public and International Affairs for the National Research Council of Canada.

	PALOMA RAGGO Paloma.

	HANS PETER SCHMITZ Hans Peter Schmitz is Director for Research of the Transnational NGO Initiative (personal website). He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He received his PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence/Italy. He is the author of Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change. Africa in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Journal of Human Rights, the Handbook of International Relations, and the Zeitschrift fuer Internationale Beziehungen. His current research focuses on the role of transnational non-governmental actors in global affairs. His current projects focus on the legitimacy and accountability of non-governmental activism, the internal politics of transnational activist organizations, and the interactions between intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.

	HALEY SWEDLUND Haley.

	DAVID VAN SLYKE David Van Slyke is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University and a senior research associate in the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs. He is a public and nonprofit management specialist and received his Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany, State University of New York. At the Maxwell School Dr. Van Slyke teaches the required Public Organizations and Management course and Project Management course as well as a course on the Implementation of Social Policy. His research areas focus on public and nonprofit management topics including privatization and public-private partnerships, contracting and contract management, policy implementation, strategic management, and philanthropy. He has published on public and nonprofit management topics in journals such as the Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration and Society, Organization Science, the American Review of Public Administration, Public Performance and Management Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Local Government Studies, and the International Journal of Public Administration. Van Slyke is the recipient of the 2002 Best Article Award and the 1999 Best Conference Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Public-Nonprofit Division for a co-authored article that appeared in Organization Science. Dr. Van Slyke is involved in a range of contract management research with Trevor Brown of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State University and Matthew Potoski in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University. Professor Van Slyke is currently working with several federal agencies, state and local governments, and nonprofits on contracting and contract management. His current contracting research is on contract management capacity and relational “incomplete” contract design. In addition, he has been the principal investigator for several studies on philanthropy and nonprofit management as well as projects in which government and nonprofit organizations seek to adopt strategic management tools and practices. He has also worked closely with nonprofit organizations on enhancing the effectiveness of their fundraising and resource development operations. Professor Van Slyke regularly speaks to senior government officials from other countries (e.g., China and India) on contracting and public-private partnerships, strategic management, policy implementation, government oversight and nonprofit organizations as part of the Maxwell School’s Executive Education. He also speaks to groups associated with the National League of Cities, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and the Cornell Municipal Clerks Institute. Dr. Van Slyke also serves as a committee member on the transnational NGO project in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. Prior to coming to Syracuse University, Dr. Van Slyke was on the faculty of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies where he taught in the public administration program and directed the nonprofit studies program. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Van Slyke spent twelve years working in project management in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

	LORENA VIÑUELA Lorena.