Appendix A

Committee Biographical Information

PHILIP J. HANLON (CHAIR)

Philip J. Hanlon is president and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. He is an experienced academic leader having served as provost at the University of Michigan prior to assuming his current role. Dr. Hanlon has been an active leader within the U.S. academy and is currently serving as chair of the COFHE Board of Directors and chair of the Ivy President’s Council. For the past 5 years, Dr. Hanlon has served the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as a member of the Policy and Global Affairs Committee. As a mathematician, his research interests are in algebraic combinatorics and discrete probability. During his academic career he has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, a Thurnau Professorship at the University of Michigan, as well as membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology.

JAYATHI Y. MURTHY (VICE CHAIR)

Jayathi Y. Murthy is president and professor of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State University. She previously served as the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Murthy has worked in both industry and academia, including a decade as one of the early employees of Fluent Inc., a leading vendor of computational fluid dynamics software. She directed the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Center for

Prediction of Reliability, Integrity, and Survivability of Microsystems, or PRISM, between 2008 and 2014. Dr. Murthy’s expertise is in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, and most recently, her work has focused on submicron thermal transport and uncertainty quantification in multiscale multiphysics systems. She is the author of more than 300 technical publications and is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 2016. She was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020. Dr. Murthy received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, her M.S. from Washington State University, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

HANNAH L. BUXBAUM

Hannah L. Buxbaum is vice president for international affairs at Indiana University (IU). She is also professor of law and John E. Schiller Chair at IU’s Maurer School of Law, where she previously held leadership roles, including as interim dean (2012–2014). As vice president, she advances global engagement across IU’s seven campuses, including at the Bloomington campus, which hosts 3 Department of Defense–funded Language Flagship Programs (Arabic, Chinese, Russian) and 18 Department of Education Title VI programs, 8 of which are designated as National Resource Centers. She oversees the offices that manage international admissions and student services, study abroad, international partnerships, and international development, as well as the university’s five Global Gateway offices. Ms. Buxbaum serves on the Fulbright Scholar CIES Advisory Board and the Association of International Education Administrators’ Public Policy Committee, and is currently chair of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Senior International Officer group. Ms. Buxbaum is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law, and in 2019 she was appointed as the U.S. member of the Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University, a J.D. from Cornell Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of Heidelberg.

CLAUDE R. CANIZARES

Claude R. Canizares is the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has served as vice president (2013–2015), vice president for research and associate provost (2006–2013), associate provost (2001–2006), and director of the Center for Space Research (1990–2002). He oversaw MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MIT’s international engagements. He is a principal investigator on NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and studies X-ray sources, including active stars, black-hole or neutron star binaries, supernova remnants, quasars, and clusters of galaxies. His service outside MIT has included

the Department of Commerce’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committees on Science, Technology, and Law; Science, Security, and Prosperity; and Federal Regulations and Reporting Requirements. He served as chair of the National Academies’ Space Studies Board and was a member of the NASA Advisory Council, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and the board of Associated Universities, Inc., among others. He served as a member of the L-3 Technologies, Inc. (now L3Harris) Board of Directors (2003–2019). He currently serves on the Hubble Space Telescope Institute Council and the National Academies’ Air Force Studies Board, and chairs the Audit Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Dr. Canizares is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, the Goddard medal, the Basic Sciences Award of the International Academy of Astronautics, and two NASA Public Service Medals.

ROBERT L. DALY

Robert L. Daly directs the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. He previously directed the University of Maryland China Initiative and served as American Director of the Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing. He began work in U.S.-China relations as Cultural Exchanges Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. After leaving the Foreign Service, he taught Chinese at Cornell University, worked on television and theater projects in China, and helped produce the Chinese-language version of Sesame Street. He is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and American Mandarin Society and a member of the Task Force on U.S. China Policy. Mr. Daly has testified before Congress, and his analysis is featured on NPR, C-SPAN, CNBC, and the Voice of America. He has interpreted for Chinese and American leaders, including Jiang Zemin and Henry Kissinger, and has lived in China for 12 years.

PETER K. DORHOUT

Peter K. Dorhout serves as professor of chemistry and vice president for research at Iowa State University (ISU) and is an Ames Laboratory affiliate. Prior to ISU, he served 5 years as vice president for research following 4 years as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University. He served 20 years at Colorado State University as vice provost for graduate studies, interim director of international programs, and professor of chemistry. He has served as

a collaborator at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1987. He has led professional organizations as a member of the Boards of Directors for the American Chemical Society, where he was the 2018 president, and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. He is a recognized expert in solid state and nuclear materials chemistry as well as a project advisor with the Russian Federal Nuclear Center through the CRDF Global. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and served as a postdoctoral scientist at Ames Laboratory at ISU. Dr. Dorhout is a fellow of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar. His awards include a Sloan Fellowship and the ACS-ExxonMobil Faculty Award in Solid State Chemistry.

MELISSA L. FLAGG

Melissa L. Flagg is the founder of Flagg Consulting LLC, as well as a fellow at the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC), a visiting fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, and a senior advisor to the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. Prior to this, she was a senior fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. Previously she served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, responsible for policy and oversight of Defense Department science and technology programs. She has worked at the State Department, the Office of Naval Research, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Army Research Laboratory. Dr. Flagg has served on numerous boards, including the National Academy of Sciences Air Force Studies Board (2014–2015) and the Department of Commerce Emerging Technology Research Advisory Committee. She holds a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry and a B.S. in pharmacy.

MARY GALLAGHER

Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights at the University of Michigan, where she is also the director of the International Institute. She was the director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies from 2008 to 2020. Dr. Gallagher’s most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She is also the author or editor of several other books, including Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China (Princeton, 2005). In 2022–2024, Dr. Gallagher will be a Fulbright Global Scholar on a new research

project that examines how economic engagement with China has affected domestic public opinion toward globalization. In addition to her academic research, she has consulted with governments, international organizations, and corporations on China’s domestic politics, labor and workplace conditions, and urbanization policies. She received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991.

JENNY J. LEE

Jenny J. Lee is a professor of higher education and Dean’s Fellow for Internationalization at the University of Arizona. She is co-editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. She formerly served as a NAFSA: Association of International Educators senior fellow, U.S. Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, and the chair for the Council of International Higher Education and Board of Directors for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She is currently the vice president elect for the Postsecondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on the internationalization of higher education, based on her comparative research in the United States, Southern Africa, and East Asia. Her latest research focuses on how geopolitics shape global science, which is covered in her award-winning edited book U.S. Power in International Higher Education, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. She earned her Ph.D. in higher education and organizational change at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2002.

IVETT A. LEYVA

Ivett A. Leyva became the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University in September 2021. Previously, she was a senior aerospace engineer for the U.S. Air Force for 15 years. She served as the program officer for hypersonic aerodynamics at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and as a researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) working on liquid rocket instabilities. Her technical expertise is in hypersonic aerodynamics and liquid rocket engines. While with the Air Force, she also worked on the protection of basic and applied research. Dr. Leyva holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology. She has six patents and has authored numerous papers and two book chapters. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Air Force Research Laboratory, and a recipient of a Civilian Achievement Medal and two meritorious Civilian Service Awards and Medals from the Air Force. Dr. Leyva has participated in four National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reports and was a member of the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board for 6 years.

ELIZABETH D. PELOSO

Elizabeth D. Peloso is the associate vice president and associate vice provost for research services at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). In addition to managing Penn’s federal, other government, and foundation research portfolio, she oversees its compliance program for export controls, and her office is leading Penn’s efforts to implement a research security program. Prior to her time at Penn, Ms. Peloso established the University of Delaware’s research compliance program, including export controls. She has deep expertise in the management of export control compliance at universities, including the establishment of policy, training, and technology controls as applicable and effective practices. Additionally, she has extensive experience in research contracting and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Ms. Peloso currently serves on the Board of the Council on Governmental Relations, chairing the Research Security and Intellectual Property Committee. She is a past chair of the Association of University Export Control Officers and remains active in the organization. With a background in engineering and business, as well as years of experience in research laboratories, Ms. Peloso brings a practical solution seeking approach to research compliance.

JEFFREY M. RIEDINGER

As vice provost of global affairs at the University of Washington (2013 to present), Jeffrey M. Riedinger has leadership and administrative responsibility for the university’s diverse global programming, including support for international research, study abroad, student and faculty exchanges, and overseas centers. As part of his responsibilities, Dr. Riedinger served as director of the Confucius Institute of the State of Washington from 2014 to 2020. He also serves on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law. He previously served as dean of international studies and programs (2005–2013) and faculty member (1990–2013) at Michigan State University. An expert on the political economy of land reform, Dr. Riedinger has carried out research in East, South, and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and the Middle East. From 1996 to 2018, he was involved in research on rural land rights in China in collaboration with colleagues at Landesa, a U.S.-based nonprofit, and at Renmin University of China. Dr. Riedinger has conducted briefings on foreign aid, land reform, and international education issues for members of the White House staff, Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development personnel, and members of Congress. His publications include two books and numerous articles, chapters, reviews, and monographs. He is immediate past president of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Dr. Riedinger earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in public and international affairs from Princeton University.

C. REYNOLD VERRET

C. Reynold Verret is the sixth president of Xavier University of Louisiana. Prior to his 2015 investiture as president, Dr. Verret served as provost and chief academic officer at Savannah State University. Previously, he also served as provost at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and as dean and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Dr. Verret also served on the faculty at Tulane University and Clark Atlanta University. His research interests have included the cytotoxicity of immune cells, biosensors, and biomarkers. He has published in the fields of biochemistry and immunology, and also collaborated on matters of social exclusion and health. Throughout, Dr. Verret has worked to increase the number of U.S. students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and continuing to advanced study. This includes development of qualified science and math teachers in K–12. Dr. Verret received his undergraduate degree cum laude in biochemistry from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). To these, he added postdoctoral experiences as a fellow at the Howard Hughes Institute for Immunology at Yale University and the Center for Cancer Research at MIT.

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