There is a gathering, bipartisan appreciation of the linkage between national security, human rights, economic growth, democracy, and liberty with critical technologies. CTDP brings deep engineering expertise to policymakers in an easily understandable way that demonstrates the inextricable links between technology advances and national interests. CTDP additionally provides training on innovation and technology to national security decisionmakers and diplomats.

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The Center Adds Three Distinguished Senior Fellows to the Team
The Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue is excited to welcome Dan DeLaurentis, Director of the Purdue Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation; Kevin Cirilli, former Chief Washington Correspondent at Bloomberg; and Bret Swanson, President of Entropy Economics to its fast-growing team of Fellows.

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Board

Director The Hon. Bonnie Glick FORMER DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Founder Mung Chiang Executive Vice President and John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, Purdue University
Chairman The Hon. Keith Krach Former U.S. Under Secretary of State
CEO of DocuSign & Ariba
Chairman of Purdue Trustees
David Reingold CTDP Co-Director
Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University
The Hon. Susan W. Brooks Former Member of Congress
Marc Carlson Managing Director, 3 Points Partners
William Elmore Co-Founder and General Partner, Foundation Capital
The Hon. Daniel S. Goldin Longest serving NASA Administrator
Founder and CEO Cold Canyon AI
The Hon. Robert Hormats Former U.S. Under Secretary of State
Managing Director, Tiedemann Advisors
Mary Kissel Former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State
EVP and Senior Policy Advisor, Stephens Inc.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, (Ret.) Ret. General
Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group
The Hon. Leon Panetta Former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Senior Fellows

The Hon. Rajendra Abhyankar Former Indian Ambassador to the European Union
Kaush Arha FORMER SENIOR ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT AND CLEAR CHOICE COORDINATOR OF THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Edward Barth Business Development Executive,
IBM Research
Alexis Bonnell Former Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development
Emerging Technology Evangelist for Public Sector, Google Cloud
Kevin Cirilli
Dan DeLaurentis Chief Scientist- DoD Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
The Hon. Frank Fannon Managing Director, Fannon Global Advisors
CSIS Senior Advisor
Former Assistant Secretary of State
SIMONE LEDEEN Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East
FOUNDER, PERIMUS CONSULTING LLC
The Hon. Nazak Nikakhtar Former Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
The Hon. Manisha Singh Former Assistant Secretary of State
Bret Swanson Founder of Entropy Economics LLC
Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute

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Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue 101 Foundry Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47906
ctdp@prf.org