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Giuseppe de Vergottini is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Advisory Board and of the directive committee of the CCSDD. Professor de Vergottini serves as a faculty member in the Summer Legal Reform Program, hosted annually in Montenegro. De Vergottini has been a Professor of Constitutional Law in the faculty of the University of Bologna since 1974. Prof. de Vergottini is a Honorary President of the International Association of Constitutional Law and of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law, Comparative, Political and Social Science. Prof. de Vergottini has authored many books and publications concerning public economy law, EC and comparative law, military and foreign law. Recent publications include "Manuale di diritto costituzionale comparato," Padova, Cedam, 2004 (Spanish translation edited by UNAM, Mexico, 2004); "Manuale di diritto costituzionale," Padova, Cedam, 2004; "Le transizioni costituzionali," Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998; "La protection des minorites entre garantie des droit linguistiques et bilinguisme," Annuaire Europeen, 1998; "Federal and Regional States - Korean International Association of Constitutional Law," World Constitutional Law Review, 1998. Fields of interest: Comparative constitutional law, National security and emergencies, Government - Parliament relations and Statute of the opposition, Constitutional Reform, and Federalism.
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Justin O. Frosini is the director of the CCSDD and editor of the CCSDD Lectures Series (together with Lucio Pegoraro). Frosini is a Lecturer of Public Law in the Faculty of Economics of the "Luigi Bocconi" University, Milan and has a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna. Professor Frosini is a member of the editorial committee of the comparative law journal "Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo" and of the Italian constitutional law journal "Quaderni Costituzionali". His fields of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional reform, local government, devolution and federalism.
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Kenneth H. Keller joins Johns Hopkins from the University of Minnesota, where he served as president from 1985 to 1988 and was most recently the Charles M. Denny Jr. Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the university's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Among other leadership positions during his 35-year career at Minnesota, he served as vice president for academic affairs, department chair and graduate school dean. During the 2003-2004 academic year he was a professorial lecturer and visiting professor at the Bologna Center. His research examines the intersection of science and technology with international politics and economics. His recent writings have dealt with information technology and national sovereignty, the environment, the globalization of research and development, and policy issues in high technology medicine.
From 1990 -1996, Keller was at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he established the Council's program on science, technology and international affairs. He was the first Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology and was, as well, the Council's Senior Vice President for Programs. During his career
he has chaired and served on a number of public and private boards and advisory groups, including the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications of the National Research Council, and the boards of RAND's Institute for Education and Training, LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. He recently completed terms as chair of the National Research Council's Board for the Technical Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and chair of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum. At present, he is a member of the National Research Council's Board on Life Sciences and he chairs a National Research Council Committee assessing NASA's astrophysics program. He is also serving on committees advising universities in Israel and Qatar. In February 2002, Keller was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Keller has undergraduate degrees from Columbia University and holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins. He has been a member of the Whiting School of Engineering's national advisory council and the Department of Chemical Engineering's board of visitors. In 1996, he received the university's Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Susanna Mancini is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Bologna University, and Adjunct professor of International Law at the Johns Hopkins University' SAIS Bologna Center. She received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her fields of interest include the managament of ethnic and linguistic conflicts, the protection of minorities and democracy in the European Union.
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Livia Mercatelli is Project Coordinator of the CCSDD Summer School on "EU and Legal Reform".
She graduated in International and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Bologna.
Livia has worked as an intern in a Spanish NGO as Project Coordinator for Development Projects in Education Area for Africa, India, Latin America and East Europe.
She is particularly interested in International Cooperation for Third World Development.
Her field of interest include: International Cooperation, International Political Economy, Political and Economic Relations between China and Africa.
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Sara Pennicino holds a PhD in Comparative Public Law from the University of Siena, and is a tutor of Public Law in the Faculty of Economics of the "Luigi Bocconi" University, Milan. She is particularly interested in immigration studies and immigration law and she is part of a project to provide legal aid to incoming immigrants.
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Francesco Biagi graduated in Law from the University of Bologna in 2007 with a thesis on "Electoral Courts in Latin America: a comparative analysis", spending three months at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. He is a PhD candidate in constitutional law at the University of Ferrara. His fields of interest are constitutional law, comparative public law and electoral management.
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| Megan Holt graduated from the University of Florida in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in political science and minors in history, Spanish, and international relations. She is currently earning her master's degree in international relations and international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs, concentrating on strategic studies. Her areas of interest include democratization, post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization, and broader security issues. As a CCSDD intern, Megan is collaborating with David Goodman and Dan Lawner on a constitutional design and conflict management case study of Ghana.
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| Leah Mainiero works as copy editor for linguistic revision of CCSDD publications. She is currently a BA/MA joint program candidate between Johns Hopkins and SAIS majoring in International Affairs and International Economics, with a concentration in Strategic Studies. She has worked as managing editor of The Johns Hopkins News-Letter and as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Global Studies (Baltimore, MD). She recently spent five weeks in the Republic of Chad conducting research in gender relations and development as a National Science Foundation research grant recipient. Her fields of interest include security studies, linguistics and Romance languages.
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| Alix Murphy is a current SAIS student concentrating in International Development. She comes to SAIS from a 9-month development fellowship with the Aga Khan Foundation in Washington, DC, where she managed a grant supporting community-based disaster risk reduction in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. With a background in Middle Eastern studies and an interest in the role that modern tribal affiliations play in electoral politics, she is conducting research on the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq and the role that the international community has played in laying the grounds for women's participation in the Iraqi political process since the 2003 invasion.
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| Ryan Miller joined the CCSDD in October 2010 as an intern for the Afghanistan Electoral Management Case Study. Prior to this, he spent two years in Afghanistan working to create, implement and manage the first ever literacy program for the Afghanistan National Police Force. He first came to Afghanistan as a research consultant for Peace Dividend Trust, a Canadian non-governmental organization focused on private sector development. His research was used by the International Security Assistance Force to NATO for increased local procurement procedures to support the rebuilding of the Afghan economy. Additionally, Ryan served as a risk management consultant from 2007-2008 for Aon Corporation in San Francisco, the largest risk management firm in the world. Ryan is currently completing a dual MA/MBA program with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business. He received his BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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