Faculty Biographies

The Honorable, Newt Gingrich Title: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives where he served until 1999. Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.” His experiences as the son of a career soldier convinced him at an early age to dedicate his life to his country and to the protection of freedom. Realizing the importance of understanding the past in order to protect the future, he immersed himself in the study of history, receiving his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University. Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years. Newt Gingrich is well-known as the architect of the “Contract with America.” Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition, the Congress restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. In his post-Speaker role, Newt has become one of the most highly sought-after public speakers, accepting invitations to speak before some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. Because of his own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, Newt is able to share unique and unparalleled insights on a wide range of topics. His audiences find him to be not only an educational but also an inspirational speaker. As an author, Newt has published nineteen books including 10 fiction and non-fiction New York Times bestsellers Widely recognized for his commitment to a better system of health for all Americans, his leadership helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, prompted FDA reform to help the seriously ill and initiated a new focus on research, prevention, and wellness. His contributions have been so great that the American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest non-medical award and the March of Dimes named him their 1995 Citizen of the Year. A strong advocate of volunteerism, Gingrich has raised millions of dollars for charity, donating both time and money to a wide array of causes, including Habitat for Humanity, United Cerebral Palsy, the American Cancer Society, and ZooAtlanta. Recognized internationally as an expert on world history, military issues, and international affairs, Newt serves as a Member of the Defense Policy Board. Newt is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals. He also

teaches officers from all five services as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University. Newt serves on the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, the Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges as far out as 2025. The Commission's report is the most profound rethinking of defense strategy since 1947. Newt Gingrich is Chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC . He serves as General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future (www.americansolutions.com), is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and is an Honorary Chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance. He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.

LtGen (Ret) John F. Goodman Title: Director of the Center of Excellence for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Lieutenant General (Ret) John F. Goodman is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (COE). The Center for Excellence is a Department of Defense organization that promotes excellence in international disaster preparedness and management, humanitarian response, and peacekeeping operations. LtGen (Ret) Goodman entered the Senior Executive Service on October 14, 2008 following 41 years of active military service in the United States Marine Corps. His last military assignment was as the Commanding General of United States Marine Forces Pacific. General Goodman’s possesses extensive knowledge into contingency response, preparedness planning and operations, and international disaster preparedness efforts. He has led or participated in more than ten disaster response and humanitarian support operations in Vietnam, Kuwait, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and the recent response to Cyclone Nargis in Burma. In addition to his operational experience, General Goodman served as the Director of the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, the Director of the Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Program, and the Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy at the United States Southern Command, United States Korea Command, Combined United StatesRepublic of Korea Command and United Nations Command Korea. Additionally, he served as Chief of Staff for the United States Southern Command. General Goodman also led the development of U.S. Pacific Command’s Consequence Support Force 503 functional support plan to address the United States’ military response to the threat of an Avian Influenza Pandemic outbreak. General Goodman’s personal military awards include the Navy-Marine Corps Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit with two stars, the Soldier’s Medal, the Bronze Star with Combat V, the Purple Heart, the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and the Army Good Conduct Medal. A native of Sacramento, CA, he has a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration and Accounting from Arizona State University. He is also a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Marine Corps War College. His experience includes playing intercollegiate football and baseball, as well as professional football for the New Orleans Saints prior to entering the U.S. Marine Corps in 1971. General Goodman is married to the former Gayle Stevenson, and they have three sons and two grandchildren.

Brig Gen (R), Thomas O. Fleming Title: Independent Consultant Thomas O. Fleming retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 1997. During his 28-year career as a fighter pilot and staff officer, he served as a joint operational and politico-military planner in Latin America, Europe, and the Pacific. General Fleming commanded Air Force F-16 fighter units at squadron and wing level and served on the United States Joint Staff and U.S. Pacific Command staff. In his two years at the U.S. Pacific Command, he was PACOM’s senior U.S. Air Force officer and served as the Deputy for Strategic Planning and Policy. In this capacity, he chaired or co-chaired over 15 bilateral conferences and facilitated the development and implementation of U.S. military strategy, policy and operational planning in the AsiaPacific Region. Since his retirement, he has served as a consultant on international security issues for the Joint Staff, U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Air Force, the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and various other government agencies. General Fleming has extensive experience in complex joint operations, Asia-Pacific security matters, and the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction. He frequently speaks on and has moderated numerous high-level conferences on these subjects. Other areas of expertise include civil-military cooperation in disaster relief operations, information management and decision support methodology, and the development and conduct of seminar games and politico-military exercises. In the past five years, he has facilitated or moderated over 50 major seminar games and conferences, typically involving general and flag officers and civilian equivalents. He guided an assessment of infrastructure vulnerability to terrorist attack following the events of 11 September 2001 and was instrumental in establishing PACOM’s Joint, Interagency Coordination Group in response to the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster. General Fleming coordinated PACOM staff panning in response to the 1996 Taiwan Straits crisis. Since 2003, he led five after-action review teams for Taiwan’s annual national defense exercise, including the presentation of results to the Minister of National Defense and Chief of Taiwan’s General Staff. General Fleming holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Business Administration from Central Michigan University, a Master of Military Arts and Sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Concord University School of Law. He is also a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the National Security Leadership Course at Syracuse University and the Johns Hopkins University. He is married with two grown children and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Dr. Greg Barton Title: Professor, Monash University Expertise: Islam; Indonesian Social Movements; JI

Dr Greg Barton joined at Monash University as the Herb Feith Research Professor for the Study of Indonesia in January 2007, based in the school of Political and Social Inquiry (PSI) in the Faculty of Arts. At Monash Greg is Acting Director of the Centre for Islam and the Modern World and Deputy UNESCO Chair in Interreligious and Intercultural Relations – Asia Pacific. Greg has internationally recognized expertise in Indonesian social movements, politics and religion. His knowledge of Indonesia politics and society, especially of the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force, is internationally recognized. In particular his work on progressive Islamic thought and its contribution to civil society and politics, together with his writing about Jemaah Islamiyah and other radical Islamist groups in Indonesia, is regarded as being on the cutting edge of his field. Greg has written or edited five books and published dozens of refereed articles and book chapters in this field, together with numerous essays in publications. Channel 7, Deutsche Vella, Radio Nederland, Singapore News Radio, Metro TV, TVRI). His biography of Abdurrahman Wahid (2002, Abdurrahman Wahid, Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a view from the inside, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press) was published in 2002 (and translated and published in Indonesian in 2003). His book: Indonesia's Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam, was published in 2004 by UNSW Press (and by Singapore University Press in 2005). He is currently working on two other book projects: Progressive Islamic thought and social movements in Indonesia and Turkey; and: Islam's Other Nation: a fresh look at Indonesia.

Dr. Michael Montesano Title: Professor, National University of Singapore Expertise: Islam; Indonesian Social Movements; JI

Michael Montesano has been a member of National University of Singapore (NUS) in the Southeast Asian Studies Programme since 1999. He was educated at Yale, Cornell, and the University of the Philippines at Los Baños. At NUS, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on the social, political, and economic history of modern Southeast Asia. His research focuses on society and commerce in twentieth-century Thailand and on contemporary American interests in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Michael S. Malley

Title: Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School Expertise: Indonesian politics and democratization; Southeast Asia regional security; Nuclear nonproliferation

Michael S. Malley joined the Department of National Security Affairs in December 2004. He teaches comparative politics, as well as courses on the domestic politics, political economy, and international relations of Southeast Asia. He speaks Indonesian fluently and has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Indonesia since the late 1980s. He earned his doctorate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master's degree in Southeast Asian Studies from Cornell University, and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. As part of these academic programs he also studied at the National University of Singapore and two Indonesian universities, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and IKIP in Malang Dr. Malley’s most recent publication was “Decentralization and Democratic Transition in Indonesia,” in Democratic Deficits: Addressing Challenges to Sustainability and Consolidation around the World, and “Nuclear Capabilities in Southeast Asia: Building a Preventive Proliferation Firewall,” (with Tanya Ogilvie-White), Nonproliferation Review 16, no. 1 (March).

Dr. Satu Limaye Title: Director, East-West Center in Washington; and Editor, Policy Studies Series

Expertise: International, economic and security relations of the Asia Pacific region.

Dr. Satu Limaye was named director of the East-West Center Washington in February 2007. Immediately prior to being appointed, he worked with the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Va., as a member of the research staff. Previously, he served as director of the Honolulu-based APCSS' research and publications division from July 1998 to October 2006. Dr. Limaye was an Abe Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, and a Luce Scholar and head of programs on South Asia at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. He has also written, edited, and co-edited numerous books, monographs, and studies, including US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle, Japan in a Dynamic Asia; Special Assessment: The AsiaPacific and the United States, 2004-2005; Religious Radicalism in South Asia; and Special Assessment: Asia's China Debate. One of his mostly widely read papers includes: Challenges for U.S.-Asia Pacific Policy in the Second Bush Administration. Dr. Limaye earned his Ph.D. in international relations at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He did his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service where he graduated magna cum laude and was selected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. David M. Finkelstein

Title: Vice President, China Studies Program, Center for Naval Analysis Expertise: Chinese culture, security and military affairs

Dr. Finkelstein received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Princeton University and studied Mandarin at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. A long-time student of Chinese and Asian affairs, he is widely published. His 1993 historical monograph, From Abandonment to Salvation: Washington’s Taiwan Dilemma, 1949-50 (GMU Press), was hailed in Presidential Studies Quarterly as "blazing a new trail" and "will take an important place in the literature of U.S.-China relations in the mid-20th Century." He is co-editor of China’s Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (M.E. Sharpe, 2002), Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949 (M.E. Sharpe, 2003), China’s Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs: Recent Trends in the Operational Art of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (CNA, 2005), and CivilMilitary Relations In Today’s China: Swimming In A New Sea (M.E. Sharpe, June 2006). A retired U.S. Army officer, Dr. Finkelstein is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, and the Army War College. He has held command and staff positions at the platoon, company, battalion, and Major Army Command levels. He also held significant China-related positions at the Pentagon as an advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Chairman, JCS in addition to serving on the faculty at West Point, where he taught Chinese history.

Dr. Alexandre Y. Mansourov Title:

Expertise: Korean Studies, defense, foreign and domestic policy

Dr. Mansourov is a specialist in Northeast Asian security, politics, and economics, focusing primarily on the Korean peninsula. Dr. Mansourov received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in New York; B.A. in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Moscow and Advanced Diploma in Korean studies from the Kim Il Sung National University in Pyongyang, DPRK. He has broad research interests ranging from the defense, foreign and domestic policies of two Korean states, to comparative political and economic development in Northeast Asia, proliferation of WMD, military build-ups and downs, IT revolution, and the impact of RMA on security dynamics in Northeast Asia. Dr. Mansourov has done consultancy work related to Korean affairs for corporate and government clients in the United States, Republic of Korea, Australia, and Japan.

Lonnie D. Henley

Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for China Directorate for Analysis Lonnie Henley was appointed Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for China in September 2008. In this post he assists the Deputy Director for Analysis guiding assessments of Chinese current and future strategic intentions, political developments, military capabilities, force structure, technology, defense economics, counterintelligence threats, and other China-related issues throughout DIA. He provides direct support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, military departments, combatant commands, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies. From 2006 until his current appointment, Mr. Henley was the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, having been appointed to the Senior National Intelligence Service in February 2006. As Deputy NIO he led the production of National Intelligence Estimates, the U.S. Intelligence Community’s most authoritative assessments on issues of national significance, and other Community analytical products. Prior to joining ODNI, he worked in the private sector at CENTRA Technology, Inc. from 2004-2006, researching Chinese national security issues for U.S. Government customers. From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Henley served in DIA as Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia and then as Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for Strategic Warning. He was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Level service in April 2000. Mr. Henley retired from the U.S. Army in 2000 after 22 years as a military intelligence officer and China foreign area officer. During his Army career he served two tours in DIA, three in U.S. Forces Korea, and one in Army G2, and taught Chinese history and world history at West Point. Mr. Henley holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering and Chinese studies from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Master’s degrees in Chinese language from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; in Chinese history from Columbia University; and in strategic intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College. In addition to his government post, Mr. Henley is an adjunct professor teaching Chinese security issues in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and French. His wife Sara Hanks is Chief Financial Counsel to the Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing Treasury’s administration of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the state of the U.S. financial system. They live in Alexandria, Virginia.

William S. Cole Senior Director, Governance, Law, and Civil Society Senior Director, Program Strategy and Development

Expertise: Governance and politics in Asia; political economy; civil society; strategic planning; uses of information technology in development; Islam in Asia; South and Southeast Asia, especially Afghanistan and Indonesia. William S. Cole is the director of The Asia Foundation's Governance, Law, and Civil Society program and Senior Director of Program Strategy and Development, where he is responsible for coordinating democratic governance, the rule of law, and conflict management. He concurrently serves as the director of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) program. Dr. Cole plays a central role in strategic planning at the country level and has been instrumental in introducing new program areas and directions for the Foundation. These include small and medium business policy reform, counter corruption programming, information technology, and conflict management. He has contributed significantly to the re-establishment of the Foundation's office and programs in Afghanistan, where he spent most of 2002. Prior to his current position, he served as director of the Economic Policy Reform program in Indonesia. Dr. Cole has written widely and is a frequent speaker on topics related to Asian development, Afghanistan, democracy and governance, and the political economy of social and economic reform. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Cole served under an appointment to USAID in the Bureau for the Near East, where he established the Governance and Democracy Program immediately following the first Gulf War, and in the Bureau for Europe and the former Soviet Union, where he established a political economy strategic planning unit. Dr. Cole lived in Asia for more than 13 years working in foreign aid and research-related positions focused on economic policy research, democracy and governance reform, social change, strategic planning and management, and project design and evaluation. Education: B.S. in natural sciences and mathematics from Washington & Lee University; M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Washington University.

Robert G. Wirsing Title: Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Expertise: Ethnicity, South Asian politics, diplomacy of natural resources

Dr.Wirsing is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service at Qatar. Earlier he was a member of the faculty of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii (2000-2008) and of the Department of Government & International Studies, University of South Carolina (1971-2000). A specialist on South Asian politics and international relations, he has made over forty research trips to the South Asian region since 1965. His publications include: Pakistan’s Security Under Zia, 1977-1988 (St. Martin’s Press, 1991); India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute (St. Martin’s Press, 1994); Kashmir in the Shadow of War (M. E. Sharpe, 2002); Religious Radicalism & Security in South Asia, co-editor (Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004); Ethnic Diasporas & Great Power Strategies in Asia, co-editor (India Research Press, 2007); and Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan (Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, April 2008). His recent research focuses primarily on the politics and diplomacy of natural resources (water and energy) in South Asia.

Dr. Yoichiro Sato is an independent analyst and an expert in Japanese foreign policy and international security and political economy of the Asia-Pacific region. He is also interested in various maritime issues, including piracy and fishery. He taught at the AsiaPacific Center for Security Studies from 2001 to 2009, after teaching at the Auckland

University in New Zealand. He has also taught at University of Hawaii and Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College. Dr. Sato received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii, M.A. in international studies from the University of South Carolina, and B.A. in law from Keio University (Tokyo). At University of Hawaii, he received Asia-Pacific Scholarship. Dr. Sato is active in professional conferences and meetings with policy practitioners, as well as in community outreach activities. He is a member of the Japan Political Studies Group of the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. He has also been invited to conferences in Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Laos, United Kingdom and Sweden. He frequently meets government and military officials to discuss Japanese security policy and security situations around Japan in meetings hosted by Pacific Forum and others. Dr. Sato has been a frequent guest speaker on Japanese foreign policy and other subjects at University of Hawaii and various community colleges. He has also been active in the activities of the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council (PAAC) and East-West Center. Dr. Sato’s research writings have appeared in such journals as the Asian Perspective, Asian Affairs, Japan Studies Review, Japanese Studies (Australia) and the New Zealand International Review, as well as in numerous edited books by others. His recently published books include Japan in A Dynamic Asia (co-edited with Satu Limaye, Lexington Books, 2006), Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy (coedited with Keiko Hirata, Palgrave, 2008), and The Rise of China and International Security (co-edited with Kevin Cooney, Routledge, 2008). Dr. Sato has been interviewed by local, national, and international media, including Bloomberg Television, ABC News, Time Magazine, Australian Broadcasting Company, Agence Presse France, Defense News, and TV One (New Zealand). He frequently comments on current international relations issues on a local Japanese radio. His op-ed articles have appeared in Asia Times, Canberra Times, International Herald Tribune, Jakarta Post, Japan Times, and New Zealand Herald.