IGCC Staff
Russell A. Burgos
Middle East Program Director, Military-Security
Russell Burgos is responsible for the IGCC Middle East Military Dialogue Program. Burgos received his Ph.D. in political science from UCLA in 2005 and was a visiting professor at Claremont McKenna College from 2005 to 2007. He currently teaches at UCLA. In addition to his academic training, Burgos served in the Army and Army Reserve for eighteen years, as both an enlisted soldier and an officer, in communications, civil affairs, and psychological operations.
Lynne Bush
Senior Editor
Lynne Bush develops
and implements IGCC print and electronic publications strategies, programs,
and projects.
She is the editor of the IGCC newsletters,
IGCC Policy Papers, IGCC Policy Briefs, and IGCC books, for which she
solicits and develops manuscripts from international faculty, researchers
and project participants, and directs production and distribution.
She is also the primary writer and content manager for the IGCC web site.
Prior to coming to IGCC in 2002, Bush was managing editor of the political
science journal International Organization. She received her
M.F.A. in creative writing from San Diego State University in 2006.
Tai Ming Cheung
Associate Research Scientist
Tai Ming Cheung is in charge of the institute’s Minerva project "The Evolving Relationship Between Technology and National Security in China: Innovation, Defense Transformation, and China’s Place in the Global Technology Order." This five-year research and training program examining China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Cheung manages IGCC's Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a Track Two program that brings together senior foreign ministry and defense officials as well as academics from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia for informed discussions on regional security issues. He is also the program manager of "The Future of Multilateral Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Exploring Regional Security Architecture and the Economics-Security Nexus," a research project in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and Yonsei University funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Cheung is a long-time analyst of Chinese and East Asian defense and national security affairs. He was based in Asia from the mid-1980s to 2002 covering political, economic and strategic developments in greater China. He was also a journalist and political and business risk consultant in northeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. from the War Studies Department at King's College, London University in 2006. His latest book, Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy, was published by Cornell University Press in 2009. He is an associate adjunct professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego, where he teaches courses on Asian security, Chinese security and technology, and Chinese politics.
Raymond J. Clark
Project Manager/Research Fellow
Raymond Clark is a project manager and research fellow in security studies at IGCC. Clark joined IGCC in early 2005 after serving as a policy analyst with the UC San Diego Office of Government and Community Relations. He has a Ph.D. in cardiovascular physiology and previously worked as a research associate in molecular cardiology in the School of Medicine at UC San Diego. Clark manages several security-related programs at IGCC, including programs in biological threats, homeland security, national security, global health diplomacy, critical infrastructure and terrorism. He was a founding board member of the National Postdoctoral Association and has been influential in evaluating and formulating policy for the scientific workforce in the United States.
Liora Danan
Director of Special Projects, Middle East Program
Liora Danan is responsible for direction of substantive programs and management of IGCC's special projects related to security and regional issues in the Middle East. She is also responsible for coordination and liaison with the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and relevant U.S. government agencies. Danan graduated from Yale University with an M.A. in international relations and a concentration in U.S. foreign policy and religion. Prior to starting at Yale, Danan was a researcher with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, where she led work considering how the U.S. government can better engage with the role of religion in conflict-prone settings. She previously worked in Israel, Egypt, Cyprus and Kyrgyzstan. She received her B.A. in political science and policy studies from Rice University.
Angela Lintz
Interim Grants/Development Analyst
Angela Lintz is the interim grants development officer for IGCC. She works to promote multi-disciplinary research and policy collaboration across the University of California system in areas of international security, environment, and health. As the foundations relations lead for IGCC, Lintz works closely with the director, research directors, and other UC faculty in the development and submission of grant proposals, as well as grant reporting. In addition to liaising with foundations, she collaborates with other groups both on and off the UC San Diego campus, including IR/PS, Contracts and Grants, Foundation Relations, Human Subjects, Corporate, Alumni Relations, corporate social responsibility representatives, and community members. Lintz earned her Ph.D. in sociology from UC San Diego, doing research in education and social inequality. Lintz has worked extensively in education opportunity programs, both as a program leader and grant developer.
Laura Martin
Conference Coordinator
Laura Martin works closely with IGCC faculty and program managers to plan and manage all of IGCC's domestic and international conferences as well as various other events for the institute. Prior to joining IGCC, Martin was the coordinator for training programs and conferences for UAW-GM, UAW-DaimlerChrysler, UAW-Ford, and E! Entertainment. She holds a M.A. in English from Oakland University.
Joseph
R. McGhee
Washington Representative
Joseph
R. McGhee is a former foreign service officer with more than twenty
years of experience in
international affairs. As
IGCC's Washington representative, McGhee works to increase IGCC's
profile within the policy community and serves as IGCC's liaison
in Washington, D.C. He designs, implements, and manages IGCC outreach
activities, programs, and fundraising initiatives in Washington,
D.C. for the U.S. Congress, government agencies, nongovernmental
and other organizations, academic institutions, and other foreign
policy-related organizations.
Helen Olow
Business Officer
Helen Olow joined the IGCC team
in July 2002. She is currently the institute's chief financial
and administrative
officer,
responsible for all the business operations of the unit including
long and short-term planning and overall management. Olow works
closely with the IGCC director in developing, planning, and coordinating
programs, and linking research and teaching agendas on all nine
campuses
and the two UC-managed laboratories to the institute's mission.
Olow has been on the staff at UC San Diego since 1986. Prior
to coming
to IGCC, she worked as the financial officer for four divisions
and one science center at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Stella Post
Campus Programs Coordinator
Stella Post coordinates IGCC campus programs and supports IGCC
system-wide activities. She currently serves as the administrator
for the "Public Policy and Nuclear Threats" (PPNT) program,
an NSF-funded program which trains natural and social scientists
from several University of California campuses to be strategic
thinkers on nuclear weapons issues. Post is the IGCC liaison
between the IGCC central office and the members of the IGCC Steering
Committee and Campus Program Directors. Additionally, she manages
all of IGCC's annual grant and fellowship competitions.
Post holds a B.A. in history from the University of Colorado,
and is pursuing an M.A. in communication and language (part-time).
Prior to UCSD, she worked as a project analyst for the U.S. Department
of Energy's Office of Project Management in Colorado.
Bari Weick
Fiscal Manager
Bari Weick is responsible
for the overall management and supervision of the fiscal activities
of IGCC, including contracts and grants, administration of awards,
accounting activities, personnel and payroll, equipment management,
and computing. In addition, he is responsible for budget and financial
oversight for IGCC grant-related awards and provisions on the UC
campuses.
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