Enduring Partnerships
INIGO GUEVARA MOYANO is a nonresident senior fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is also responsible for the growth of the Janes Strategic Services practice in Washington, D.C.
HARVEY A. SCHOONOVER is a nonresident research fellow for the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. Specializing in international security and regional defense, his research focuses on regional defense integration, political-military affairs and civil-military relations.
LT. LEEANN M. TUCKER is a public relations officer who has served the Royal Bermuda Regiment for a decade. Tucker spent six of those years as a corporal and acting sergeant, honing her skills before deciding to commission as an officer.
DR. TROY BOUFFARD is an assistant professor of Arctic security in the College of Business and Security Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is the designer and instructor for the Arctic security graduate concentration.
DR. P. WHITNEY LACKENBAUER is the network lead and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the study of the Canadian North and a professor at the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. He has authored, co-authored or edited more than 40 books and is a leading expert on Arctic security.
DR. ANDREA CHARRON is a professor of political studies and director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has worked for various federal departments, including the Canadian Privy Council Office in the Security and Intelligence Secretariat.
DR. ADAM LAJEUNESSE is an associate professor and coordinator of the Public Policy and Governance Program at St. Francis Xavier University. He also holds a research chair in Arctic and Marine Security at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government and is a Fulbright Scholar (2024-25).
LT. COL. MIKKEL PERLT was appointed as a representative to U.S. Space Command by the Danish defense chief in 2024. A 2000 graduate of the Royal Danish Air Force Academy, he has served at the Danish Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland, and as the Arctic coordinator at Defence Command Denmark.
CMDR. STEFAN LUNDQVIST is a military lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Swedish Defence University. He is an active-duty Swedish Navy officer with a doctorate in political science from Åbo Akademi University, Finland.
MARIA JONTÉN is project director at the Strategic Implications and Innovations Center of the Swedish Defence University. She focuses on policy, strategy and engagement to develop Sweden’s total defense. Jontén also contributes to creating and conducting strategic war games.
DR. KELSEY FRAZIER is the associate director for research and analysis at the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies. She holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and leads research on technological innovation, strategic competition and security challenges in the Arctic.
CAPT. JAMIE DELCORE is the division chief for campaign planning and initiatives for North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command. The U.S. Navy officer manages long-range planning efforts and their integration with global campaigns.
ADELA GARCIA DUNCAN is chief of public affairs and outreach at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Garcia Duncan holds a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University.
MAJ. MATTHEW A. HUGHES is a foreign area officer and an instructor for the Command and General Staff Officers Course at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. He holds master’s degrees in international public policy and intelligence studies.
YOUSSEF MANI was appointed in January 2023 to be the assistant commissioner/Arctic region for the Canadian Coast Guard. He has held several senior management positions within the Canadian Federal Public Service.
LT. COL. BOBBY BRYAN is a British Army infantry officer whose service spans more than 25 years. During that time, he deployed on all major land campaigns of the Army. He is currently a military staff officer within the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence and provides security policy and operational advice.
MAJ. ANDREW R. COLPITTS is a military and professional engineer who is a graduate of the Joint Command and Staff Programme at the Canadian Forces College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s of geospatial intelligence.
LT. ALEJANDRO SÁNCHEZ JUÁREZ studied computer systems engineering at Tecnológico Nacional de México and holds a master’s degree in information technology management. A MARINA officer, he also obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer law and new technologies.
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REAR ADM. SCOTT F. ROBERTSON became the director of plans, policy and strategy, J-5, for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command in March 2022. A third-generation naval officer, Robertson holds a master’s degree of science in systems engineering from George Mason University.
COL. MICHAEL JONES is the chief of the Security Cooperation Division, Strategy, Policy and Plans Directorate for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. He is responsible for shaping and managing USNORTHCOM’s security cooperation activities with the Bahamas, Canada and Mexico.
COMMODORE RAYMOND E. KING was appointed to lead the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in October 2019. After enlisting in 1987, he served on board the HMBS Exuma and David Tucker before accepting an appointment as midshipman, making the transition from Marine to naval officer in November 1989.
DR. R. EVAN ELLIS is a research professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. He focuses on the region’s relationships with the People’s Republic of China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors, as well as transnational organized crime and populism in the region.
DR. ANTHONY CLAYTON is the Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies. His research is based on policy analysis, futures studies and strategic planning.
CAMRYN HOELLE works for Q2 Impact and provides contracting support to U.S. Northern Command as a Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Program analyst in the Human Security and Resilience Office. She graduated from the University of Denver with a master’s degree in international security.
JOEL PEDERSEN is a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran who is Caribbean desk officer responsible for the United States Northern Command military-to-military engagements with the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
DR. HOLLY PEIRCE is a United States Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State and formerly served as the J5 deputy foreign policy advisor at the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. She is a Joint Staff-certified gender advisor.
TIFFANI PHILLIPS is the security cooperation integration deputy and gender advisor for U.S. Northern Command. She is responsible for the policy, planning, assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of security cooperation with the Bahamas, Canada and Mexico and the implementation of Women, Peace, and Security initiatives across the command.
DR. PAUL J. ANGELO was selected by the U.S. secretary of defense to be director of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in June 2022. His previous work at the Council on Foreign Relations included roles as a fellow for Latin American studies and as an international affairs fellow.
ADELA GARCIA DUNCAN is chief of public affairs and outreach at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Garcia Duncan has led the Women, Peace, and Security Symposium at WHINSEC for five years and holds a master’s degree in business administration from George Washington University.
DR. INIGO GUEVARA MOYANO is managing director of Janes Strategic Services and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program. He is a former director of Mexico’s Office of the National Security Council/Office of the President of Mexico.
LT. COL. BENJAMIN L. BEASLEY became the commanding officer of the Royal Bermuda Regiment in June 2020. He previously served as a training officer and adjutant. He was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in February 2006. He has a bachelor’s degree in military history and is an experienced rugby player.
LT. COL. ENNIS GRANT was appointed in June 2020 as commanding officer of the Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment. He holds a master’s degree in maritime security from Coventry University and a postgraduate diploma in business administration from the University of Leicester, both in the United Kingdom.
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TROY BOUFFARD is director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Center for Arctic Security and Resilience and an instructor at the UAF Homeland Security and Emergency Management Program. He is also a nonresident research fellow at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba.
DR. RYAN BURKE is a professor and deputy head in the department of military and strategic studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). He is also research director of USAFA and U.S. Northern Command’s Homeland Defense Institute.
ROB HUEBERT is an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Calgary. He has also served as the associate director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He served as a member of the Canadian Polar Commission (now Canada Polar Knowledge) from 2010 to 2015.
MARC LANTEIGNE is an associate professor of political science at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He specializes in international relations, comparative politics (China, the Indo-Pacific, Oceania and the polar regions), security studies and comparative political economy.
U.S. AIR FORCE MAJ. GEN. (RET.) RANDY A. KEE is the senior advisor for Arctic security affairs responsible for assisting the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) with the establishment of the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies.
DR. JAMES R. MORTON is an assistant research professor with the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. Morton supports the vice chancellor of research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to foster opportunities with the DOD.
BRIG. GEN. PASCAL GODBOUT has been commander of Joint Task Force North since May 2021. The Canadian general has supported North American Aerospace Defense Command operations on four tours of duty.
LT. COL. MIKKEL PERLT was appointed as a representative to U.S. Strategic Command by the Danish defense chief in 2021. A 2000 graduate of the Royal Danish Air Force Academy, he has served at the Danish Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland, and as the Arctic coordinator at Defence Command Denmark.
SARA OLSVIG is the international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and a Ph.D. fellow at Ilisimatusarfik — the University of Greenland. Olsvig was a member of the Parliament of Denmark from 2011 to 2015 and the Parliament of Greenland from 2013 to 2018.
SVEIN EFJESTAD retired from Norway’s Ministry of Defence in 2022 after working in roles that included defense and nuclear planning as well as intelligence coordination. He is now a senior advisor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
JANNE KUUSELA is director general at the defense policy department of Finland’s Ministry of Defence. He previously served as acting director general and then deputy director general for defense policy. Kuusela is a member of the Arctic Policy Steering Group for the Finnish government and a board member at the Atlantic Council of Finland.
DR. P. WHITNEY LACKENBAUER is the network lead and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the study of the Canadian North and a professor at the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. Having authored, co-authored or edited more than 40 books, he is considered one of Canada’s leading experts on Arctic security, history and contemporary policy.
DR. ADAM LAJEUNESSE is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Canadian Arctic marine security policy and an assistant professor at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government. His research centers on issues of sovereignty and security in the Canadian North, with a particular focus on the history of the Canadian Armed Forces in the region.