CPD Staff
Jian (Jay) Wang
Director
Stacy Ingber
Assistant Director, Programming & Events
Lisa Rau
Editorial Manager
Sohaela Amiri
Research Associate
Jesse Pittman
Senior Manager for Development & Partnerships
Rachel Cohrs
Website Manager
CPD ADVISORY BOARD
Garrett Marquis
CPD Advisory Board Member
Former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, White House
Jonathan Woetzel
CPD Advisory Board Member
McKinsey & Co. Senior Partner and McKinsey Global Institute Director
STUDENT INTERNS
Samantha Brill
Development and External Relations Assistant
Candidate, USC Bachelor of Public Relations
Bokie Muigai
CPD Graduate Student Fellow (Public Relations)
Candidate, Master of Strategic Public Relations
Anna Pederson
CPD Graduate Student Fellow (Public Relations)
Candidate, Master of Strategic Public Relations
Whitney Tang
CPD Research Intern
USC Master of Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs ('21)
Yayu Zheng
CPD Research Intern
Doctoral Student & Annenberg Fellow, USC Department of Cinema and Media Studies
CPD Visiting Scholars & Fellows
Oliver Lewis
CPD Senior Visiting Fellow (Non-Resident)
Senior Research Associate, Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford
To view past CPD Visiting Scholars & Fellows, click here.
CPD Research Fellows
Elisabeth King
CPD Research Fellow 2021-2023
Associate Professor of International Education and Politics, New York University
Shearon Roberts
CPD Research Fellow 2021-2023
Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Xavier University
Ilan Manor
CPD Research Fellow, 2019-2021
University of Oxford scholar and Blogger at digdipblog.com
Mafalda Dâmaso
CPD Research Fellow 2019-21
Lecturer, King’s College London and Institut Catholique de Paris
Zahid Shahab Ahmed
CPD Research Fellow, 2017-2019
Alfred Deakin Postdoc Research Fellow, Deakin Inst. for Citizenship & Globalization, Deakin University
Sascha Priewe
CPD Research Fellow, 2019-2021
Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM)
Lindsay J. Benstead
CPD Research Fellow, 2017-2019
Associate Professor, Political Science, Portland State University
Martin Edwards
CPD Research Fellow, 2018-2020
Associate Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
Diana Ingenhoff
CPD Research Fellow, 2017-2019
Professor of Organizational & Strategic Communication, University of Fribourg
Jennifer Hubbert
CPD Research Fellow, 2018-2020
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies, Lewis & Clark College
CPD Faculty Fellows
Amara Aguilar
USC Annenberg
Anthony Bailey
VP for Global Initiatives, USC
Robert Banks
USC Annenberg
Corneliu Bjola
University of Oxford
Laurie Brand
USC School of International Relations
Caitlin Byrne
Griffith Asia Institute
Geoffrey Cowan
USC Annenberg
Nicholas J. Cull
USC Annenberg
Kathy Fitzpatrick
University of South Florida
Robeson Taj Frazier
USC Annenberg
Vince Gonzales
USC Annenberg
G. Thomas Goodnight
USC Annenberg
Bruce Gregory
George Washington University
Robert Hernandez
USC Annenberg
Tom Hollihan
USC Annenberg
Jeong-Nam Kim
University of Oklahoma
Josh Kun
USC Annenberg
Matthew Le Veque
USC Annenberg
Jan Melissen
Clingendael
Najmedin Meshkati
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Erik Nisbet
Northwestern University
James Pamment
Lund University
Michael Parks
USC Annenberg
Katarzyna Pisarska
Warsaw School of Economics
Adam Clayton Powell, III
USC Annenberg
Alison Dundes Renteln
USC Dornsife
Patricia Riley
USC Annenberg
Philip Seib
USC Annenberg
Varun Soni
Dean of Religious Life, USC
Pamela Starr
US-Mexico Network, USC
Vivian S. Walker
U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Rebecca Weintraub
USC Annenberg
Ernest J. Wilson III
USC Annenberg
Diane Winston
USC Annenberg
Aimei Yang
USC Annenberg
R.S. Zaharna