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Musk announced plans to dismantle the foreign aid agency, sparking alarm among lawmakers and raising concerns over national security. Congressional Democrats are demanding answers, while some Republicans support merging USAID into the State Department, marking a major shift in U.S. global engagement.
Faculty experts at the George Washington University are available to offer insight, commentary and analysis. To speak with an expert, please contact the GW Media Relations team at [email protected].
Foreign Aid
Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Humanitarian Action Initiative . Deloffre is an expert in Global governance, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), humanitarianism, humanitarian standard-setting, NGO and humanitarian accountability, locally-led humanitarian assistance. She can speak to the HA programs affected.
National Security
Scott J. White, Associate Professor and Director of the Cybersecurity Program and Cyber Academy at the College of Professional Studies at the George Washington University. Dr. White is an expert in cybersecurity, cybercrime, counter-terrorism and infrastructure protection. He has worked for a variety of law enforcement agencies in the US, the UK and Canada; as well as holds a Queen’s Commission and was an Officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Regulatory Policy
Roger Nober is the Director of the GW Regulatory Studies Center and a Professor of Practice at the GW Trachtenberg School. His career includes service as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at BNSF Railway, Chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board and Chief Counsel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives. Nober retired from BNSF Railway Co. in December 2022, after 16 years as an Executive Vice President responsible for overseeing legal and regulatory matters, environmental claims, compliance, communications as well as state government and community affairs.
Susan Dudley is a distinguished professor of practice in the GW Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and former director of the GW Regulatory Studies Center. Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center, served as a staff economist at OIRA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated. Her expertise includes regulatory policy, federal regulatory procedure, benefit-cost analysis, risk assessment, environmental policy, health & safety regulation, and financial market regulation.
Dudley published the piece, “What To Expect On The Regulatory Front In A Second Trump Term,” in Forbes today about the regulatory actions she expects Trump and his administration to make in his second term as president.
Christopher Carrigan is an associate professor and co-director of the GW Regulatory Studies Center. His research focuses on regulatory and bureaucratic policymaking, exploring the effects of organizational design on agency rulemaking and enforcement practices, political responses to disasters in regulated industries, factors that influence rule timing and durability, and the role supporting analysis plays in regulatory outcomes. Carrigan’s expertise includes regulation, bureaucratic politics, public administration and policy, and political economy.
Steven Balla, associate professor and co-director of the GW Regulatory Studies Center, studies government transparency and public participation in policymaking in China and the United States. Balla is currently working on projects on congressional oversight of regulatory policymaking, polarization in public commenting on proposed rules, transparency and participation in state rulemaking, commenting on midnight regulations, policymaking innovation in China, transparency and participation in policymaking in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the responsiveness of Chinese government officials to public feedback on draft laws and regulations.
Public Health
Emily Smith, is an associate professor of global health and an expert in infectious diseases and nutrition, at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. She can discuss USAID’s role in providing vulnerable populations around the world with nutritious food that bolsters good health.
Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, is an associate professor of global health at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health. Colón-Ramos is an investigator in public health nutrition globally, with expertise in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
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