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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 173-176

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... Dr. Shepodd was at Sandia for over 35 years working on various aspects of national security, including chemical munition destruction/neutralization, explosives chemistry, controlled substance synthesis, materials science for nuclear deterrence, and special communications.
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... Bleek is a professor in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Program, faculty affiliate at both the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, and coordinator of the Cyber Collaborative, all at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He previously served as senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs in the U.S.
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... From 2009–2015, Kaufman served as the associate administrator for Policy, Program Analysis, and International Affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Kaufman teaches in Georgetown University's graduate program in Emergency and Disaster Management; lectures for the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security; and has previously served as a committee chair and roundtable member for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
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... Usha Wright is president of SHARE Africa, working in rural Kenya, as well as vice chair of the Board of Directors at Scenic Hudson, an environmental nongovernmental organization. Previously, she served as senior vice president, Environmental Safety and Health functions for ITT Corporation and before that, at Ciba Geigy (now Novartis)
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