Berkley Center

Anthony Clark Arend is professor of government and foreign service and chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as senior associate dean for graduate and faculty affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. His research and teaching is in the fields of international law, national security law, international legal theory, and human rights.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca is the Kelly and David Pfiel Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute in the George W. Bush Presidential Center. She previously served as executive vice president and interim president at Freedom House and as a professor of the practice of international relations and concentration chair for global politics and security in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She also served for 10 years in the United States Department of State, working on democracy promotion, human rights, human trafficking, religious freedom, refugees, women's issues, and counterterrorism.

Rev. Matthew Carnes, S.J., is an associate professor in the Department of Government and in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and he has served as the director of the Center for Latin American Studies since July 2016. His research examines the dynamics of labor and social welfare policy. Carnes is the author of Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America (2014). 

Mark P. Lagon is chief policy officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also adjunct professor, Centennial Fellow, and Distinguished Senior Scholar in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Lagon previously was president of Freedom House and served as U.S. ambassador-at-large, directing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.