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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

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Colonel Peter Durr
Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Colonel Peter Durr was commissioned in the Adjutant General Corps as a Distinguished Military Graduate in 1979. He has served in a wide variety of personnel, administrative and operational assignments during several extended tours in the Federal Republic of Germany. These assignments included postings as the Chief of the Records, Personnel Management and Standard Installation Division Personnel System (SIDPERS) Divisions of the Regional Personnel Center, 3rd Infantry Division in Schweinfurt; Commander of the United States Military Community Detachment, VII Corps in Schweinfurt; Chief of the Personnel Command Tactical Computer Fielding Team in Schwetzingen; Chief of the Operations Division, G1, 3rd Infantry Division in Würzburg; and Commander of the Personnel Services Company, V Corps in Schweinfurt. Additionally, he also served one tour in the continental United States as the Chief of the Tactical Computer Fielding Support Branch, Personnel Information Systems Command in Alexandria, Virginia.

While working in his capacity as a foreign area officer, COL Durr also served as an Assistant Professor and Head of the German Office in the Department of Foreign Languages, United States Military Academy at West Point; as the United States Army Europe and 7th Army (USAREUR/7A) Liaison to the German Army Forces Command in Koblenz, Germany; and the US Army Attaché to Germany in Bonn/Berlin.

Since August 2005, COL Durr has been a Military Professor of Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany, where he is also Deputy Director of the Senior Executive Seminar.

COL Durr holds a bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville University in Florida and a master’s from Middlebury College in Vermont. His awards and decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army Meritorious Medal (4 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal and the German Armed Forces Cross of Honor (silver).

Last updated: April 28, 2008