Amy E. Gordon
Director, International Peace and Security

Email: agordon at macfound dot org

Amy Gordon joined the Foundation in 2006 as Director of the International Peace and Security area in the Program on Global Security & Sustainability with responsibility for the Foundation's grantmaking in international security.

Prior to her arrival at MacArthur, Gordon served in the U.S. Department of State, where she led diplomatic coordination of the Proliferation Security Initiative -- a global effort to halt illicit shipments of WMD-related materials. She served as Chief of the Political Military Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2000-2003). Gordon was an advisor to the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Secretary of State on ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, in the mid-late 1990s.

Gordon holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University and was also a Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center, Harvard University.

Matt Shannon Stumpf
Program Officer

Email: mstumpf at macfound dot org

Matthew Shannon Stumpf is the Foundation's Program Officer for International Peace and Security, focusing on Asian Security and the Science and Technology Security Policy Initiative.

Before joining the MacArthur Foundation in March 2007, Matt served as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and its predecessor bureaus, the Bureau of Nonproliferation and the Bureau of Arms Control.  In these positions, he was responsible for advancing U.S. nonproliferation and counterproliferation efforts in Asia, for diplomatic outreach in support of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), and for issues related to the negotiation and implementation of U.S. strategic nuclear weapons treaties.  He has also served as a Foreign Policy Fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.

Stumpf holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and as the Distinguished Scholar of the Elliott School of International Affairs.

Other Staff

Elsa Gutierrez
Program Administrator

Rossi Polenica
Program Assistant

Renee Munro
Executive Secretary