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IRSS personnel
Board of Directors
John Clark, principal consulting writer,
Randolph Associates (Cambridge, MA)
Gail Epstein, former director of public service programs, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Carla Johnston, president, New Century Policies
(Cambridge, MA)
Gordon Thompson, executive director,
IRSS (Cambridge, MA)
Paul Walker, director,
The Legacy Project, Global Green USA (Washington, DC
Executive Director
Gordon D. Thompson, Phil., is the executive director of IRSS. He was educated in Australia and the UK, in engineering and science, obtaining his doctorate from Oxford University in 1973. Dr. Thompson has been based in the United States since 1979. Over the past three decades he has acquired wide experience with natural resource and international security issues. One of his major interests has been the environmental and security impacts of nuclear technologies. Dr. Thompson has coordinated multidisciplinary teams, organized international conferences and provided expert testimony in a variety of contexts.
Deputy Director
Paula Gutlove, D.M.D., is the associate director of IRSS and director of IRSS's International Conflict Management Program. She was trained in social science and medicine, and has been working in social change, conflict management and program development since 1979. Dr. Gutlove was founding executive director of the Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (1981-1983), the Center for Psychology and Social Change (1985-1989), and the Balkans Peace Project (1991-1997). She has been a program consultant to numerous non-profit and inter-governmental organizations, and has facilitated dialogue and conflict resolution training sessions in the United States, Soviet Union, CIS, Japan, Australia, Europe, and the Balkans.
Development Consultant
Lisa LinehanAccounting
Lisa KnebelDevelopment Assistant
Hui Wen ChanInformation Technology Assistant
Kerry Saner
Board
of Advisers,
International Conflict Management Program
Elise Boulding, professor emeritus of sociology, Dartmouth College; former secretary-general of the International Peace Research Association (Wayland, MA)
Ellen Elias Bursac, co-chair, South East European Study Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; translator, Hague War Crimes Tribunal; lecturer, Slavic Department, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Adam Curle, professor emeritus of peace studies at Bradford University, U.K. (London, England)
Ambassador Robert Frowick, former Head of OSCE Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina; former head of OSCE monitoring mission, Macedonia (Santa Rosa, CA)
Ambassador Herbert Okun, former special advisor to Cyrus Vance; executive director, Financial Services Volunteer Corps (New York, NY)
Joseph V. Montville, director, Preventive Diplomacy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC)
Dr. Dieter Koch-Weser, former associate dean for international programs, Harvard Medical School; senior consultant, Educational Development Center, Inc. (Newton, MA)
Ambassador Harold Saunders, director of international affairs, Kettering Foundation; former Assistant Secretary of State (Washington, DC)
