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	Faculty Biographies
	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

Photo of LTC Cavoli

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli
Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction
College of International and Security Studies

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli was commissioned in the Infantry as a Distinguished Military Graduate in 1987. He has served in a wide variety of operational billets in airborne and light infantry units throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, in both training and combat. LTC Cavoli’s staff experience includes a posting as the Country Director for Russia on the Joint Staff/J5, service as the Deputy Executive Assistant for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and appointment as the Chairman of the JCS’s Military Fellow at the National Defense University. LTC Cavoli is also a qualified Foreign Area Officer and speaks Italian, Russian and French.

Most recently, LTC Cavoli commanded the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. With this unit, he deployed from March 2006 to June 2007 to Afghanistan, where the battalion’s area of responsibility included Nangarhar, Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar Provinces. Since July 2007, LTC Cavoli has been a Military Professor of Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany, where he is also the Deputy Director of the Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction Operations.

LTC Cavoli holds degrees from Princeton and Yale Universities. He is a veteran of Operations Provide Comfort, Joint Forge, and Enduring Freedom. His awards include the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Ranger Tab, and Master Parachutist Wings.

Last updated: April 14, 2008