John W. Slocum
Director, Migration and Human Mobility, and Co-Chair, Higher Education Initiative in Russia

Email: jslocum at macfound dot org

John Slocum is the Director of Global Migration and Human Mobility, and Co-Chair 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 K. Novy-Marx is a Program Officer in the Global Migration and Human Mobility area of the Foundation's Program on Global Security and Sustainability.

Novy-Marx joined the Foundation in September 2003 after having spent several years as an economic and management consultant in the private sector, where she worked on issues of business strategy, antitrust and competition policy. Prior to her work as a consultant, Novy-Marx served as Economist at the World Bank in Bangkok, Thailand, managing a program on privatization of state-owned enterprises and regulation of services such as energy and telecommunications. She also worked for the Institute for EastWest Studies in Prague on reform of social policy in former Communist countries.

Novy-Marx received her M.P.A. and Ph.D. in Economics and Development from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.

Other Staff

  
Gabriela Suarez
Program Administrator

  
Laura Young
Program Assistant

  
Cordia Pugh
Secretary