2025 IGL Colloquium
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Matan Chorev
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Matan Chorev serves as the Principal Deputy Director of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief of Staff of the National Security and Foreign Policy team on the Biden-Harris Transition and as the foreign policy author of the 2020 Democratic Party Platform.
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Daniel H Holmberg has 30+ years as a principled humanitarian Assistance professional in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. He is currently the senior program policy advisor for the UN World Food Program Country Offices in Libya and Iraq on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus.
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Dr. Jim Walsh is a Senior Research Associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, specializing in international security and nuclear issues. He has advised Congress, engaged in nuclear talks with Iran and North Korea, and his work is frequently featured in major media outlets.
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Jake Sherman is the Minister Counselor for UN Management and Reform at the U.S. Mission to the UN and was the lead U.S. negotiator for the 2024 UN Summit of the Future. He has held senior roles across the U.S. government, United Nations, and international NGOs, with a focus on multilateral cooperation, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution.
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Paul Jay is a documentary filmmaker and journalist known for exposing the hidden forces of power, from pro wrestling to geopolitics, through acclaimed films like Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows and Return to Kandahar. He is currently directing How to Stop a Nuclear War, based on Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine, and continues to challenge war, secrecy, and authoritarian uses of AI through journalism, film, and public speaking.
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Paul Jay is a documentary filmmaker and journalist known for exposing the hidden forces of power, from pro wrestling to geopolitics, through acclaimed films like Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows and Return to Kandahar. He is currently directing How to Stop a Nuclear War, based on Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine, and continues to challenge war, secrecy, and authoritarian uses of AI through journalism, film, and public speaking.
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Jehane Sedky is the Executive Director of the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University and a strategic advisor to global leaders including President Bill Clinton and Dr. Paul Farmer. With deep expertise in program development, communications, and international crisis response, she has led high-impact teams across the UN, UNICEF, and global health initiatives, while also authoring work on children in conflict and humanitarian recovery.
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Sasha Chanoff
Sasha Chanoff is the founder and executive director of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for the world’s most at-risk refugees and supports the humanitarian community to do the same.
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Tyler is an entrepreneur, educator, and researcher whose work focuses on the socially beneficial applications of artificial intelligence, currently serving as CEO of Tickr and teaching “AI and Communication” at NYU. With roots in MIT’s Media Lab and Apple, his projects—like Wordloop, Top Model, and StoryLab—explore how AI can enhance education, policymaking, and global resilience.
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Bhaskar Chakravati
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Richard Lanza is a Senior Research Scientist in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and an IEEE Fellow recognized for his groundbreaking work in radiation detectors and imaging systems for medicine and security. Over a six-decade career, he has contributed to innovations in CT scanning, explosive detection, nuclear nonproliferation, and humanitarian demining, embodying the interdisciplinary spirit of MIT.
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Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program at Harvard’s Belfer Center and Editor-in-Chief of International Security, one of the leading journals in the field. A prolific scholar and editor, he specializes in nuclear policy and great power conflict, and co-directs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ project on the global nuclear future.
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Steven E. Miller is Director of the International Security Program at Harvard’s Belfer Center and Editor-in-Chief of International Security, one of the leading journals in the field. A prolific scholar and editor, he specializes in nuclear policy and great power conflict, and co-directs the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ project on the global nuclear future.
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Ben Sand - RAND