Wisconsin Project Board of Directors
Mr. Donald Herskovitz is an attorney specializing in tax law. He has been an associate dean and associate professor at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Herskovitz has authored numerous articles on tax related issues. He has also served as senior technical advisor for the Washington national tax offices of Deloitte and Touche and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Herskovitz holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Ms. Donatella Lorch is a freelance journalist, media consultant and media trainer. She has been a reporter and correspondent for almost twenty years and has covered wars and conflicts in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe for NBC News, Newsweek and The New York Times, where she was East Africa Bureau Chief for three years. Most recently, she was the director of the Knight International Press Fellowship, a program that sends mid-career U.S. reporters abroad to share the best practices of journalism. Ms. Lorch has master's degrees from Columbia University in both International Relations and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and a B.A. in Chinese language and literature from Barnard College.
Mr. William J. Lowell is the managing director of Lowell Defense Trade, LLC. He served for 31 years at the U.S. State Department. From November 1994 to January 2003 he was Director of the Office of Defense Trade, where he managed the U.S. government's program for arms exports. He received the Secretary of State's Career Achievement Award in January 2003 upon retiring. From January 2003 to December 2006, he was a member of the staff for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on International Relations, where he had responsibility for oversight of arms sales, security assistance, nonproliferation and export controls. Mr. Lowell earned an M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Kathleen McNamara is a professor in Georgetown University's Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her areas of expertise include international relations, international political economy, and the European Union. She has also taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Professor McNamara has a Ph.D. in political science and a Master's in International Affairs, both from Columbia University.
Mr. Jerry Straus is an attorney and partner and co-founder of Hobbs, Straus, Dean, & Walker, LLP, a law firm in Washington, DC. He has represented American Indian Tribes in Washington for many years, and has successfully led legal and legislative efforts to protect the land, natural resources, property and sovereignty of tribes around the country. Mr. Straus has an LL.B. from Columbia University Law School. After graduating from law school, he served for two years in the Department of Justice's Civil Division.
Dr. Richard Ullman is David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, emeritus, at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he taught for more than three decades. He has served on the editorial board of The New York Times, and has been editor of Foreign Policy. During the Johnson administration he worked on the staffs of the National Security Council and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Dr. Ullman, a former Rhodes scholar, holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University. In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.