Careers in Public Service with UM Alum: Open House with Mark R. Jacobson

The Weiser Diplomacy Center is excited to welcome Mark R Jacobson for an Open House & Career Discussion with students. With over two decades of experience in academia and public service, Mark R Jacobson has recently served as the assistant dean at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His academic journey includes positions at Amherst College and Georgetown University. In the realm of public service, Jacobson has contributed to NATO, the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and held various roles at the Department of Defense. A dedicated public servant, he is a veteran of both the Army and Navy Reserves, having been mobilized to active duty in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Trained as a historian, Jacobson earned degrees from the University of Michigan, King's College - University of London, and The Ohio State University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in military history. Mark is currently the Vice President of Research, Evaluation, and Modernizing Government at the Partnership for Public Service.

Faculty Expert

Javed Ali

Associate Professor of Practice

Ali is a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, with over 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington, D.C. He served in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he also held senior positions on joint duty assignments at the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the National Security Council.

Faculty Expert

Susan D. Page

Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. Director; Weiser Diplomacy Center

Page applies her vast foreign policy experience to the Weiser Diplomacy Center. She has served the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in senior roles for decades, across East, Central, and Southern Africa, and in Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan and served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in Haiti.

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• Javed Ali
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• Mark Jacobson
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