Dr. William Inboden
Dr. Inboden is Senior Vice President of the Legatum Institute. Most recently he served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked on a range of foreign policy issues including the National Security Strategy, democracy and governance, contingency planning, counter-radicalisation, and multilateral institutions and initiatives. Prior to that, Dr. Inboden worked at the Department of State as a Member of the Policy Planning Staff and a Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy magazine’s Shadow Government.
Dr. Inboden was also a Civitas Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and has worked as a staff member in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. He has lectured widely in academic and policy settings, and received numerous research and professional development fellowships. He is the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Inboden received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees in history from Yale University, and his A.B. from Stanford University.
Mr. Michael Magan
Mr. Michael Magan is Senior Vice President for Management and External Relations of the Legatum Institute. Most recently he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilisation, and Development in the National Security Council’s directorate of International Economic Affairs, where he coordinated the U.S. Government’s development and reconstruction efforts as well as responses to humanitarian crises. In addition, he oversaw the U.S. foreign assistance budget and managed a wide array of issues including HIV/AIDS and malaria, food assistance, and stabilisation efforts. Prior to this he was the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau at the U.S. Agency for International Development and as the Director of the Agency’s Centre for Faith-based and Community Initiatives.
Mr. Magan has more than fifteen years experience in the field of Central and South American affairs with emphasis on trade and democratic development issues. Prior government experience includes service as the Associate Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition, in the private sector he served as Managing Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Office of Western Hemisphere, and later as Vice President and Deputy Chief of Staff to the President and CEO. At the International Republican Institute, Mr. Magan served as Regional Director for the Latin America and Caribbean region, managing the office that focused on strengthening democratic processes and institutions abroad. His service in Washington, D.C. also includes five years as a Congressional staff member.
With a B.A. in Political Science from Holland, Michigan’s Hope College, Michael continued scholarly work on regional history and political culture at Peru’s Universidad de Lima.
Dr. Ryan Streeter
Dr. Streeter is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute. He writes about and researches a range of issues related to socioeconomic mobility, the nature of prosperity, and the private sector’s role in solving public problems. He co-leads the Institute’s signature research endeavour, The Legatum Prosperity Index, a global assessment of economic growth and well-being, and is currently overseeing a survey of entrepreneurs in emerging economies. Prior to joining the Legatum Institute, he was vice president of Civic Enterprises, a public policy development firm in Washington, D.C., where he provided a wide range of research, analysis, and public communication services to a diverse group of clients, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute.
Previously, Dr. Streeter was Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for domestic policy, in which capacity he managed the development of policy on a range of issues such as poverty, civil society, global health, housing, human services, and health care. He has served in other national and local government positions and was for three years a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he is currently an adjunct fellow. He holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Emory University and is the editor, co-author, or author of four books, and has published numerous articles.
Dr. Jean Geran
Dr. Geran is a Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for issues including democracy, human rights, trafficking in persons, women, children, refugees, governance and rule of law. Dr. Geran began work at the State Department as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in 2001. She also served as the Director for Democracy and Human Rights on the National Security Council, as Advisor on United Nations Reform at the State Department and as an Abuse Prevention Officer on the U.S. Disaster Assistance Response Team in southern Iraq.
Dr. Geran's academic and professional work has focused on community development, disaster response, sustainable livelihoods and analysis of social capital and networks in Asia, Africa and Latin America. She has been an adjunct professor at The George Washington University and also has conducted research and program evaluations for various NGOs, universities and international organizations. She received her B.S.B.A. in business administration from Georgetown University, her M.S. in rural development from Michigan State University, and her Ph.D. in development studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.