Transatlantic cooperation

Faculty affiliates

Louis Fintor

U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence

Joining the Foreign Service in 2002, Fintor, a UM alumni and Detroit native, served as U.S. Embassy spokesperson in the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe. As Diplomat in Residence (DIR), Fintor provides information on State Department opportunities…

Visiting policy practitioners

Kseniya Yurtayeva

Visiting Scholar, Weiser Diplomacy Center

Kseniya Yurtayeva a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, with support from the Weiser Diplomacy Center. Yurtayeva is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Kharkiv National University of Internal…

Professors of practice

Javed Ali

Associate Professor of Practice

Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, he joined Weiser Diplomacy Center in 2021. Ali brings more than 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in…