21st
Panel - Policy
S. Tjip Walker
Dr. S. Tjip Walker leads the Warning and Analysis Team in the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) at the US Agency for International Development. In this capacity he coordinates CMM’s analytical leadership on range of conflict related issues, including early warning, assessment, monitoring and evaluation, and training. Over the past year, he has led USAID’s contributions to the development of the Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework and served a team leader for the first field application in Cambodia. Dr. Walker also serves as USAID’s lead on fragile states. In that capacity, he recently completed leadership of a multi-year, multi-donor collaboration sponsored by the OECD’s Fragile States Group focused on improving service delivery in fragile states.
In his 29-year career as a development professional, Dr. Walker has been engaged in efforts ranging from identifying ways to increase the effectiveness of agricultural extension programs to reach women farmers to developing a methodology for assessing democratic governance to reviewing the effectiveness of USAID’s support to disarmament/demobilization/ reintegration (DDR) programs to coordinating a global examination of the factors leading to conflict over forest resources. His overseas assignments have included managing a privatization and market reform program also in Cameroon and directing the Office of Transition Initiative’s (OTI) program supporting the democratic transition in Nigeria.
Dr. Walker holds an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University.
Hassan Baroudy
Hassan Baroudy is currently the Deputy Director of the Democracy and Governance Office at International Relief and Development (IRD), a non-governmental organization specializing in international development and humanitarian assistance. As Deputy Director, Hassan manages international programs that focus on conflict mitigation and prevention, particularly in Indonesia and Afghanistan. Prior to IRD, Hassan worked for The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and served as a Democracy and Governance (DG) Field Advisor for the DG Crisis Response Team (CRT). With USAID he served extended tours working with Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in Iraq and on democracy efforts in Pakistan. Before USAID, Hassan worked in Iraq for over a year and half for a USAID Local Governance Project soon after the fall of Iraq in 2003. Hassan’s career also includes service for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa and then employment for Peace Corps Headquarters’ Africa Region for 5 years in Washington D.C. He received his MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS in Conflict Management and International Economics.
John Mongan, Chief of the Civilian Response Corp - Active Component, S/CRS
Moderated by: Eric Ham, Policy Director, 3D Security
Eric Ham is the Policy Director the 3D Security Initiative. He is responsible for managing the Center’s Washington office. He manages the center’s legislative portfolio and strategically connects the center’s first-rate research with key policymakers. He currently directs the center’s work on civilian-military capacity and broader issues surrounding the interagency process.
Prior to joining the 3D Security Initiative, Mr. Ham served as deputy director for congressional affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He was responsible for directing the Center’s outreach to members of Congress and congressional staff. He created a number of influential programs that elevated the level of debate within congress. These programs include the CSIS Congressional Dialogue Series, a signature series that aims to foster bipartisanship by offering members of Congress, from both sides of the aisle, the opportunity to share a platform on security and foreign policy. Additionally he was creator of the CSIS Critical Questions, substantive written and audio analyses, examining provocative issues of the day.
Mr. Ham has also served as national security fellow to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) where he focused primarily on military programs and operations and defense appropriations. He also provided advice and counsel to the Senator in preparation for hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In addition to his legislative background, Mr. Ham has worked on a number of political campaigns at the local and national level. He also worked as an senior advisor for international human rights organizations on issues ranging from the abolition of child slavery in Angola and conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone, to the abolition of the death penalty; working on the latter with the European Union and U.S. nongovernmental organizations.
He is a co-author of the publication, Don’t Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out against the Death Penalty (Rutgers University, 2003). Early in his career, Mr. Ham served as a senior policy analyst in the Michigan State Legislature. He holds a master of public policy degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan.
