Meet the CPD Team | USC Center on Public Diplomacy

CPD Staff

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Jian (Jay) Wang

Director

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Renee Almassizadeh

Assistant Director for Operations and Programming

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Senior Research Specialist

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Website Manager (Consultant)

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Assistant Director of Engagement

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Director of Development, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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Resource Employee

CPD ADVISORY BOARD

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Chair, CPD Advisory Board

Partner, Latham & Watkins (ret.)

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CPD Advisory Board Member

CEO, StartItUp

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Executive Director, California Film Commission

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Katherine Brown

CPD Advisory Board Member

President & CEO, Global Ties U.S.

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Chairman, Chehadé & Company

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Kimberly Marteau Emerson

CPD Advisory Board Member

International Board, Human Rights Watch

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Editor-in-chief, WorldPost

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Law Professor, Pepperdine Caruso Law School

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Jerrold D. Green

CPD Advisory Board Member

President & CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Former President & CEO, National Geographic Partners

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Markos Kounalakis

CPD Advisory Board Member

Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution

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CPD Advisory Board

Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Chair and CEO of TLC Beatrice, LLC

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Tireco, Inc., Founder and Chairman

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Chairman & CEO, Phoenix Pictures

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Ponchitta Pierce

CPD Advisory Board Member

Journalist & Media Consultant

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Former Assistant Secretary of State, Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)

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Alan M Schwartz

CPD Advisory Board Member

President, Asset Management Solutions

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Founder & Chairman, The Open Hands Initiative

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Chairman and Former CEO, Stein Mart, Inc.

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Latham & Watkins LLP Partner

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CPD Advisory Board Member

Fellow, Distinguished Careers Institute, Stanford University

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Jonathan Woetzel

CPD Advisory Board Member

McKinsey & Co. Senior Partner and McKinsey Global Institute Director

STUDENT INTERNS

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Editorial & Multimedia Intern

Candidate, Master of Science in Digital Social Media

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Research Intern

Candidate, Master of Public Diplomacy

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Xiao "Alicia" Liu

Editorial Assistant

Candidate, Bachelor of Arts in Communication

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Sarah Schornstein

Editorial & Multimedia Intern

Candidate, Master of Public Diplomacy

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Programming & Operations Assistant

Candidate, Master of Public Diplomacy

CPD Visiting Scholars & Fellows

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Dionysos Alexiou

CPD Eastern Mediterranean Research Fellow

University of Nicosia

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U.S. Public Diplomat in Residence 2022–24

CPD Visiting Scholar

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CPD Visiting Scholar

Professor, Bar-Ilan University

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Vassilis Kappis

CPD Eastern Mediterranean Research Fellow

Deputy Director, Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, University of Buckingham

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CPD Senior Visiting Fellow (Non-Resident)

Senior Research Associate, Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford

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Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in PD

Professor, York University

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Aristotle Tziampiris

CPD Visiting Scholar

Professor of International Relations, University of Piraeus

To view past CPD Visiting Scholars & Fellows, click here.

CPD Research Fellows

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Dmitry Chernobrov

CPD Research Fellow 2022–24

Associate Professor, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield

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CPD Research Fellow 2023-25

Associate Professor, University of the Basque Country

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CPD Research Fellow 2022–24

Principal Academic in Media, Communication and Politics, Bournemouth University, UK

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CPD Research Fellow 2021-2023

Instructor of Sports Business, University of Oregon

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Kristin Eggeling

CPD Research Fellow 2023-25

Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

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CPD Research Fellow 2021-2023

Professor of International Education and Politics, New York University

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CPD Research Fellow 2022–24

Senior Director, Organizational Strategy & Change, Northwestern University

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CPD Research Fellow 2023-25

Associate Professor, Western Michigan University

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Shearon Roberts

CPD Research Fellow 2021-2023

Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Xavier University of Louisiana

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Alistair Somerville

CPD Research Fellow 2023-25

Independent Researcher

To view past CPD Visiting Scholars & Fellows / Research Fellows, click here.

CPD Faculty Fellows

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USC Annenberg

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VP for Global Initiatives, USC

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USC Annenberg

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University of Oxford

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USC School of International Relations

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Griffith Asia Institute

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CPD Faculty Fellow

USC School of Architecture

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USC Annenberg

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Nicholas J. Cull

USC Annenberg

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Kathy Fitzpatrick

University of South Florida

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Robeson Taj Frazier

USC Annenberg

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USC Annenberg

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G. Thomas Goodnight

USC Annenberg

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George Washington University

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Robert Hernandez

USC Annenberg

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USC Annenberg

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University of Oklahoma

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USC Annenberg

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Matthew Le Veque

USC Annenberg

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Clingendael

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Najmedin Meshkati

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

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Northwestern University

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Lund University

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Katarzyna Pisarska

Warsaw School of Economics

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Adam Clayton Powell, III

USC Annenberg

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Alison Dundes Renteln

USC Dornsife

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USC Annenberg

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USC Annenberg

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Dean of Religious Life, USC

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US-Mexico Network, USC

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Vivian S. Walker

U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy

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Rebecca Weintraub

USC Annenberg

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Ernest J. Wilson III

USC Annenberg

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USC Annenberg

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USC Annenberg

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American University