Students & Alumni

This past spring, IWP students elected officers for the 2019-20 Student Government Association Board. The officers began their duties on May 19, and will continue until Commencement on May 18, 2020. President: Jennifer W. Jennifer was born and raised in Chicago.  She attended Villanova University where she majored in History and Humanities before enrolling at The…

Two students from The Institute of World Politics, Jordan Cain and Lyndsay Amyot, have been awarded the prestigious Rumsfeld Graduate Fellowship for the 2019-20 school year. Rumsfeld Fellows are selected based on recommendations by professors at institutions across the country who serve as advisors for the program. This fellowship involves financial support for their graduate…

Former professional staff member for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and IWP alumnus Scott Cullinane is launching the US-Europe Alliance (USEA) with a conference on “Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century.” This event is open and free to the public (More info/Register). It will be held on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 from 9:00…

On June 6, 2019, IWP alumnus and current Policy Chief of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Pentagon, Mark Beall, moderated a panel discussing “Augmented Capabilities- Harnessing AI and Building Readiness for the Modern Battlespace” at the 2019 EU and Foreign Policy Defense Forum. Other panelists included Christian Brose, Head of Strategy at Anduril…

IWP alumnus Dr. Zak Allal was honored to give a concert during his tour entitled “One Piano, One Monument” at the Residence of the United States Ambassador to Algiers: Villa Montfeld. Villa Montfeld: A historic property Villa Montfeld is registered as a culturally significant site by the U.S. Department of State for its cultural and…

Christian Myles and Joseph Ryan, both members of the IWP Class of 2019, recently completed an evaluation of the relationship between IWP, the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Vocational Rehabilitation and G.I. Bill representatives, and the IWP student veteran population. This project, which they completed as their hands-on project for Amb. Philip Hughes’ The Art…

IWP students and interns have created videos to highlight human rights issues in a practicum project for the Institute’s Center for Human Rights and International Affairs. This project, called the Universal Rights Digital Media Initiative, was designed to facilitate student and intern involvement in developing media messages.

On May 22, 2019, a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) led by Jared Ettinger, an IWP alumnus, published a report on a study on cyber intelligence practices. The SEI had previously published a study in 2013 regarding cyber intelligence, upon which the recent publication built.

Jack Doyle, Valedictorian of the IWP Class of 2019, gave remarks during the Commencement ceremony, which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, D.C. on May 18.

While Joshua Drusbacky was pursuing political science studies at Ashland University’s Ashbrook program, he was looking for a way to blend his military experience into a civilian career. He began to gravitate towards the national security field, and, soon, he learned about IWP from his political science professor Dr. Peter Schramm.