Global Migration & Human Mobility
Program Staff
 |
 |
Program Director John Slocum discusses global migration on this short video »
John W. Slocum
Director, Migration and Human Mobility
Director, Higher Education Initiative in Russia
Email: jslocum at macfound dot org
John Slocum is the Director of the Initiative on Global Migration and Human Mobility, and Director of the Higher Education Initiative in Russia.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 1997, Slocum was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma, and held a postdoctoral position at Cornell University's Peace Studies Program. He has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union and is the author of several publications on issues of nationality and state-formation in Tsarist and contemporary Russia, and on the external relations of Tatarstan, part of the Russian Federation. In Summer 2005, Slocum was a visiting fellow at the Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society in Berlin. His latest research compares U.S. and German foundation assistance to Russia, and examines the development of Russia’s philanthropic sector.
Slocum's undergraduate degree is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his master's and Ph.D. (in political science) are from the University of Chicago.
|
 |
|
Milena Novy-Marx
Program Officer
Email: mnovymar at macfound dot org
Milena joined the Foundation in 2003 and co-led a two-year effort to develop the Foundation’s Initiative on Global Migration and Human Mobility. She also manages the Foundation's work on international development, where she has led an effort to create the new, interdisciplinary Master's in Development Practice degree at universities worldwide. She previously worked for the World Bank, USAID, and as an economic consultant on anti-trust issues. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former board member of the African Economic Research Consortium. A Fulbright Scholar, she earned her B.A. in political science from Yale University, and her M.P.A. in economic policy and her Ph.D. with a focus on economics and development from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
|
|
|
|
Gabriela Suarez
Program Administrator
|
Laura Young
Program Associate
|
Cordia Pugh
Secretary
|
|
