Students & Alumni

IWP Doctoral candidate Amanda Won has recently written an article entitled “The Theory and Practice of North Korean Espionage,” which was published in the Winter/Spring 2020 edition of The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies. She originally wrote this paper for her course on counterintelligence with Dr. David Thomas. The Intelligencer is published by the…

An IWP alumnus led the development and coordination of the 2019 Naval Intelligence Vision and Guidance document on behalf of Naval Intelligence Leadership. This document is a broad overview of the key goals and priorities of Naval Intelligence in the current and ever-changing environment. This document was finalized in 2019 and recently released to the public.…

“I treated my job search like a full-time job.” These are the words of IWP student James,* who began his M.A. program this January. He connected with IWP Director of Career Services Derrick Dortch on December 6, 2019, with a goal of finding a job by the end of February 2020. On February 10, having…

In this interview, we speak with Curt Klun, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a candidate for IWP’s Doctor of Statecraft and National Security. Curt has joined the doctoral program at a key time in his career as he works to formulate an integrated strategic approach to fighting transnational organized…

“Increasingly, bad actors are targeting small businesses so that they can start getting access to a large client or customer… they reel in one business and then use that information to attack an even bigger fish.” – Chris Phair (’13) Chris Phair (’13) has founded a new company, Level Up Cybersecurity LLC, which aims to…

After beginning his career at the Royal Bank of Canada, Peter Sulick (’11) found himself wishing he had a career path that was more personally fulfilling. But what was his passion? He determined to figure it out. In the meantime, he left the banking industry and started doing something completely different: he began working at…

In a recent interview with TSA, an Algerian news service, Dr. Zak Allal, an IWP Non-Resident Scholar and alumnus, commented on the start-up ecosystem in Algeria and provided an assessment of Algeria’s new president’s innovation policy. Read more

On Friday, January 31st, six alumni and two students who work or have worked at the Pentagon gathered to share career advice with a group of IWP students. The panel discussed several career paths for students who are interested in beginning or continuing a career in national security. The panel contained students and alumni who…

Rachel Bauman (’18) – currently a policy advisor on the Helsinki Commission – began a lifelong interest in Russia after writing a paper for her history class in her freshman year of high school. “I had to do a report on Lenin, and I got really interested in Soviet history and the Russian language,” she…

Soon after developing an interest in national security affairs in college and beginning to pursue an M.A. in Statecraft and National Security Affairs at IWP, Caleb Crim (’16) found himself in a job creating intelligence products for the highest levels of government, including the White House, diplomatic officials, defense officials, and other government agencies. This…