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As the executive director of the Global Security Initiative, Nadya Bliss oversees efforts to address the complex, interdependent security challenges of today and beyond. GSI focuses on addressing global security challenges in partnership with defense, security and diplomacy communities. These challenges are often characterized by complex interdependencies and present conflicting objectives requiring multi-disciplinary research and cross-mission collaboration. Read more about Bliss's role with GSI. Bliss holds a professor of practice appointment and is a member of graduate faculty in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and a senior sustainability scientist appointment in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. She is also the vice chair of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group.

Sanjeev Khagram is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of globalization, transnationalism, leadership, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, cross-sector innovation, public-private partnerships, inter-organizational networks, good governance, transparency, the global political economy, sustainable development, human security, and the data revolution. He holds a bachelor's in development studies and engineering, a master's degree and doctoral degree minor in economics and doctorate in political economy, all from Stanford University.

Professor Khagram most recently led the establishment of the cross-sectoral Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and International Open Data Charter. He also previously founded and was the architect of the multi-stakeholder Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). Khagram was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and authored UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon鈥檚 Report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in 2009. He was dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Foundation and Trust from 2003-2005, and he was Senior Policy and Strategy Director at the World Commission on Dams where he was the lead writer of the Commission鈥檚 widely acclaimed Final Report from 1998-2000. Khagram also founded and led Innovations for Scaling Impact 鈥� a global enterprise from 2007-2012.

Khagram was the John Parke Young Professor of Global Political Economy, Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College from 2012鈥�18. He was previously a Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for International Development at the University of Washington. From 2008鈥�10, he held the Wyss Visiting Professorship at the Harvard Business School. Khagram was an Associate (and Assistant) Professor at Harvard University鈥檚 JFK School of Government and Visiting Professor at Stanford University鈥檚 Institute of International Studies between 1998鈥�2005. He has also taught in numerous universities around the world including the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), University of Cape Town (South Africa), University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Central European University (Hungary). 

Professor Khagram has published widely including: "Dams and Development," (Cornell University Press); "Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms" (University of Minnesota Press); "The Transnational Studies Reader" (Routledge Press); "Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation and Accountability" (Brookings Press). In addition, he's authored "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance" in Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 鈥淪ocial Balance Sheets鈥� in Harvard Business Review, 鈥淓vidence for Development Effectiveness鈥� in the Journal of Development Effectiveness, and 鈥淭owards a Platinum Standard for Evidence-Based Assessment,鈥� in Public Administration Review.

Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, multilateral organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. Khagram is of Asian Indian heritage, a Hindu, and a refugee from Idi Amin鈥檚 Uganda, which brought him to the United States in 1973 via refugee camps in Italy.  He is the proud father of two sons.

Education
Ph.D. Global Political Economy, Stanford University 1999
Ph.D. (Minor in) Economics, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1998
M.A. Economics and Policy, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1993
B.A. Development Studies and Engineering, Self-Designed Major, Stanford University 1990

Sanjeev Khagram is a world-renowned expert in global leadership, the international political economy, sustainable development and the data revolution. 

Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, nonprofit organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world.

Khagram is dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors.

As the dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Khagram envisions Thunderbird as intensely focused on its founding mission to bring peace to the world through commerce. 

Afzal Ashraf has broad experience of International Relations and security issues, both as a practitioner and as an academic.

This includes service as a senior officer in the UK Armed Forces in operations ranging from famine relief in Africa to stabilisation operations in the South Atlantic, deterrence support in the Cold War and strategic aspects of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has worked in support of diplomacy in the UK鈥檚 Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in information fusion, analysis and communication in some of UK鈥檚 security-related government departments.

He has been Head of Training Management for the Royal Air Force where he had responsibility for physical fitness, combat survival and through life learning.

He has run a private security consultancy covering areas such as cyber security and countering violent extremism and was a Consultant Fellow at the UK鈥檚 oldest Think Tank, the Royal United Services Institute.