Subject: Truman CEO search
From: "Rachel Kleinfeld" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:40:26 -0600

Dear Hunter,

Long time no see - sadly! I am still working full time at the Carnegie
Endowment, have just had a second daughter this summer, and have my first
big public book coming out in November (
https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Order-Deadliest-Countries-Security/dp/1101871997)
- and that's my life in a nutshell. I hope you are doing equally well, if,
perhaps, getting a little more sleep than this new mom.

I know Truman is in the midst of a CEO search, and talked with Matt Spence
about it a bit. For what it's worth to current board members, I had wanted
to step back when Mike took over, so as not to have a founder's dead hand
hanging over my successor. But now that we are undertaking a new leadership
transition, I would love to be more engaged. If there was space on the
board, that might be a nice way to reconnect, or some other appropriate way.

Meanwhile, I had promised Matt some thoughts on a short list of candidates,
and figured I would send them to others as well. I was told to look for
diversity, which I've done. I also have some out of the box thoughts, and
some high reaches. But I think all of these individuals would do a strong
job if they were able. I also thought, based on my conversation with Matt,
that it might help to have a former CEO offer some questions to the board
to ask of candidates. There are some things about fundraising and finances,
personnel, etc. that were top of my mind in choosing a candidate who could
keep the organization strong, but may not occur to board members. So if it
is of help to have a conversation about those, very happy to.

List attached and below, and again, hope you are very well,

Best
Rachel

*Candidates to Consider:*

Nealin Parker

Sarah Holewinski

Dafna Hochman Rand

Halie Soifer

Nina Hachigian

Colin Kahl

Tony Blinken

Pete Buttigieg

Julie Smith

Rose Jackson

Molly Kinder

*If they don’t win Congressional seats:*

Tom Malinowski

Elissa Slotkin

Lauren Baer

*Nealin Parker*

*Nealin Parker, *former Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development on March 14, 2014. As Chief of Staff for Secretary
Julián Castro and former Secretary Shaun Donovan, Nealin was a key member
of the leadership team who helped oversee more than 8,000 employees and a
$46 billion annual budget. Known for her ability to distill complex
information, build consensus on tough issues and for her highly effective,
personal management style, Nealin has helped lead large, complex
organizations across the public and private sectors. Prior to HUD, Nealin
was the Acting Director of the Office of Transition Initiatives at the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID/OTI). OTI was established after
the fall of the Berlin Wall to provide rapid response to political crises
globally. The office is recognized for its innovation, agility, and focus
on effective management. Among its portfolio during her tenure were
programs in Afghanistan, Burma, Kenya, Libya, and Syria. Prior to joining
the Obama Administration, she served as Chief of Staff for the Center on
International Cooperation in New York City, where she was responsible for
strategy, managing front office and administrative staff, raising core
funds, and overseeing multiple technical/policy portfolios. Nealin has
brought to these endeavors over 10 years of experience working on issues of
poverty, health, and conflict with governments, non-governmental
organizations, and think tanks, including the Carter Center, IFES, the
Bobst Center on Peace and Justice, the Treatment Action Campaign, and the
Brookings Institution. Nealin earned a Master’s in Public Affairs from the
Woodrow Wilson School and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the
University of Virginia. In 2013 she was selected as one of 20 inaugural
participants in the President’s Leadership Group. She is a member of the
International Society of Women Geographers and a Truman Fellow in National
Security.

*Sarah Holewinski*

*Sarah Holewinski* previously serves in the Office of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. She was formerly deputy chief of staff for policy at
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. For nearly a decade prior, she was
executive director of Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), leading
efforts to advise warring parties on civilian protection and responsible
use of force. In that role, she worked extensively with the U.S. military
and its allies and in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, CAR, Burma, and
elsewhere.  Sarah helped author U.S. doctrine on civilian harm
mitigation, advised NATO on addressing civilian harm in Afghanistan and on
civilian casualty prevention for Operation Unified Protector in Libya,
advised the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and created trainings on
civilian protection for the United States, NATO, AMISOM, ANSF, and Burmese
forces.

Sarah was named in Top 100 Most Influential People in Armed Violence
Reduction by Action on Armed Violence and received the Truman National
Security Project’s award for Extraordinary Impact.  She was a member of the
(Bill) Clinton Administration’s White House AIDS Policy team, a senior
associate at West Wing Writers, and consulted for Human Rights Watch, Ford
Foundation, and the William J. Clinton Foundation. Sarah holds degrees from
Georgetown and Columbia Universities, and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations.

*Dafna Hochman Rand*

Dafna Hochman Rand is Vice President for Policy and Research at Mercy
Corps. Rand most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) at the U.S. State
Department, where she oversaw, designed and implemented diplomatic and
programmatic strategies to advance human rights, civilian security and
governance. In addition to representing the United States on diplomatic
missions, Rand mobilized the U.S. interagency to achieve the 2016 White
House Executive Order on civilian protection.

Prior to her role at DRL, Rand was a member of the State Department’s
Policy Planning Staff and served on the National Security Council, in
addition to working in policy think tanks. She has served two tours as a
staff member in the U.S. Senate, where she worked on a range of national
security, budgetary, trade and development issues. She has testified
multiple times in front of key Senate and House committees.

Rand holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from
Columbia University’s Department of Political Science. She has published
extensively on the political developments and international security issues
related to the Middle East and North Africa.

*Colin Kahl*

*Molly Kinder*

Molly Kinder Molly Kinder is a senior advisor on Work, Workers and
Technology as well as the New America National Network. She is also a
fellow at Georgetown University's Beeck Center for Social Impact
& Innovation and adjunct faculty at Georgetown's McCourt School of Public
Policy, where she is teaching a graduate seminar on the social, economic
and policy implications of AI. Kinder is leading human-centered research on
workers' perspective on automation and their motivations and constraints to
skills and opportunity.

Kinder has more than 15 years of experience in innovation, policy, economic
development, research, and impact investing. Previously, Kinder was
co-founder and vice president of a $200 million social impact fund. She
served in the Obama administration as director in a new innovation program
and was a policy director at the ONE campaign. She directed a Pakistan
initiative at the Center for Global Development and co-authored the
center's best-selling book, *Millions Saved: Proven Successes
in Global Health*, which is required reading in more than 60
universities. Kinder worked overseas in Liberia in the government of
Africa's first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and in India and
Pakistan with the World Bank. Kinder served as a term member of the Council
on Foreign Relations, a Truman Security Fellow, and was ranked "Top 99
under 33" in foreign policy. Her media appearances include CNN, NPR, Al
Jazeera, Voice of America,* USA Today, Time Magazine* and the *Boston
Globe*. Kinder is
an alum of the University of Notre Dame and has a master's degree from
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

*Haile Soifer*

*Halie Soifer* is currently serving as National Security Advisor to Senator
Kamala Harris (CA), advising on matters pertaining to foreign policy,
defense, veterans, and cybersecurity.  Previously, she served as foreign
policy advisor and committee staff for three Members of Congress – Rep.
Robert Wexler (FL), Sen. Ted Kaufman (DE), and Sen. Chris Coons (DE) –
including serving as Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Staff
Director when Senator Coons served as Chairman from 2010 to 2014. Most
recently, from 2014 to 2016, Halie served in the Obama Administration as
Senior Policy Advisor for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha
Power, focusing on matters pertaining to Israeli-Palestinian issues, the
budget, and Congress.  In 2008, Halie served as the Florida Jewish Vote
Director for the Obama Campaign.  Halie received her Master’s degree from
Johns Hopkins SAIS in Middle East studies and international economics, and
Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

*Nina Hachigian*

Nina Hachigian currently serves as Deputy Mayor for International Affairs
for the city of Los Angeles. Hachigian was appointed U.S. Ambassador to
ASEAN by former President Obama, and served in the post from 2014 to 2017
with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
During her tenure, the U.S. established a strategic partnership with ASEAN,
held the first Leaders’ Summit in the United States, launched a
presidential initiative on economic cooperation, established the U.S.-ASEAN
Women’s Leadership Academy, and grew the youth program to over 100,000
members. She had previously served as director of the RAND Center for Asia
Pacific Policy for four years, been Senior Vice President at the Center for
American Progress, and was on the staff of the National Security Council in
the Clinton White House from 1998 to 1999.

A founder of Women Ambassadors Serving America (WASA), Ambassador Hachigian
holds a B.S. from Yale University and is a graduate of Stanford Law School.
She is the editor of “Debating China: The U.S. – China Relationship in Ten
Conversations” (Oxford University Press, 2014), and co-author of “The Next
American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise” (Simon &
Schuster, 2008).

*Colin Kahl*

Colin H. Kahl is co-director of the Center for International Security and
Cooperation, the inaugural Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at the Freeman
Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a Professor, by courtesy,
in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also a
Strategic Consultant to the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global
Engagement.

From October 2014 to January 2017, he was Deputy Assistant to the President
and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. In that position, he
served as a senior advisor to President Obama and Vice President Biden on
all matters related to U.S. foreign policy and national security affairs,
and represented the Office of the Vice President as a standing member of
the National Security Council Deputies’ Committee. From February 2009 to
December 2011, Dr. Kahl was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
the Middle East at the Pentagon. In this capacity, he served as the senior
policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel
and the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, and six other
countries in the Levant and Persian Gulf region. In June 2011, he was
awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service by
Secretary Robert Gates.

From 2007 to 2017 (when not serving in the U.S. government), Dr. Kahl was
an assistant and associate professor in the Security Studies Program at
Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. From
2007 to 2009 and 2012 to 2014, he was also a Senior Fellow at the Center
for a New American Security (CNAS), a nonpartisan Washington, DC-based
think tank. From 2000 to 2007, he was an assistant professor of political
science at the University of Minnesota. In 2005-2006, Dr. Kahl took leave
from the University of Minnesota to serve as a Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow in the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
where he worked on issues related to counterinsurgency, counterterrorism,
and responses to failed states. In 1997-1998, he was a National Security
Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard
University.

Current research projects include a book analyzing American grand strategy
in the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. A second research project focuses
on the implications of emerging technologies on strategic stability.
  Tony Blinken

Tony Blinken is managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy
and Global Engagement and the Herter/Nitze Distinguished Scholar at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Tony has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations over
three decades—including Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama
administration, the nation’s number two diplomat. Tony helped to lead
diplomacy in the fight against ISIL, the rebalance to Asia, and the global
refugee crisis, while building bridges to the innovation community. Before
that, Tony served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy
National Security Advisor to President Obama. He chaired the Deputies
Committee, the administration’s principal forum for formulating foreign
policy. During the first Obama term, he was National Security Advisor to
Vice President Biden. Tony served as Democratic Staff Director for the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and was a member of
President Clinton’s National Security Council staff from 1994 to 2001.

Tony was a reporter for The New Republic magazine and has written widely
about foreign policy. He is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America,
Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. He is also a contributing opinion
writer for the New York Times and a global affairs analyst for CNN.

Tony is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.

*Pete Buttigieg* – Mayor of South Bend Indiana A Rhodes Scholar, Buttigieg
studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford and holds a
bachelor’s degree in History and Literature from Harvard. Buttigieg was
born in South Bend and grew up in the Northwest Side and North Shore
Triangle neighborhoods. He attended St. Joseph High School in South Bend.

Buttigieg is past President of the Indiana Urban Mayors Caucus and the
Northern Indiana Mayors Roundtable, and serves on the boards of the Truman
National Security Project and the United States Conference of Mayors. In
2015 he received the New Frontier Award from the John F. Kennedy Library
Foundation and the Harvard University Institute of Politics, and in 2016 he
won the U.S. Department of Transportation Mayors’ Challenge Pedestrian and
Bicycle Awards for the City’s work on Smart Streets.

Elected at the age of 29, Buttigieg has been profiled by the New York Times
and was called “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of” by the
Washington Post. An officer in U.S. Navy Reserve from 2009-17, Buttigieg
took a leave of absence to serve in Afghanistan during a seven-month
deployment in 2014, earning the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his
counterterrorism work.

An active musician, Buttigieg plays piano and guitar, and has performed
with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. He lives in the same neighborhood
where he grew up and is restoring a formerly vacant home there.

*ROSE JACKSON*

*Rose Jackson *is the co-founder and CEO of Rise Up. She was previously the
senior policy advisor for the Secure Partnerships Initiative at the Open
Society Foundations. Before joining Open Society, Jackson served as the
chief of staff to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the
U.S. Department of State. She also served as a foreign policy advisor to
Senator Chris Coons as a Galloway Fellow. She has worked in key positions
on several high-profile U.S. political campaigns.

Jackson served as a program officer at the National Democratic Institute in
both Washington, D.C., and Nairobi, Kenya, and ran programs in Somalia and
Uganda. In 2011, she served as an advisor and political analyst for the
International Organization for Migration in Benghazi and Tripoli, Libya.
She is a Truman National Security Project Fellow and directs its Africa
expert group, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jackson received an MA in international relations from the United States
International University as a Rotary Scholar in Kenya and a BA in
international relations and economics from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

*Julie Smith*

Julie Smith Julianne (“Julie”) Smith is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the
Center for a New American Security, and is currently serving as a
Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin. She is the former Senior
Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for
a New American Security. She serves as a contributing editor to Foreign
Policy, where she coedits “Shadow Government.”

From 2012-2013, she served as the Deputy National Security Advisor to the
Vice President of the United States. In addition to advising the Vice
President on a wide range of foreign and defense policy issues, she
represented him in Cabinet and Deputies level interagency meetings. During
March and April of 2013, she served as the Acting National Security Advisor
to the Vice President.

Before her post at the White House, she served for three years as the
Principal Director for European and NATO Policy in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. In that capacity, Ms. Smith acted as
the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs for all matters falling within the broad
spectrum of NATO and European policy. Her office managed the Department’s
bilateral relationships with 31 European countries. In January 2012, she
was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional
Public Service.

Prior to joining the Obama administration, Ms. Smith directed the CSIS
Europe Program and the Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership,
where she led the Center’s research and program activities on U.S.-European
political, security, and economic relations. She authored or contributed to
a number of CSIS books and reports, including *Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic
Compact for the 21st Century*
<http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/sebin/i/y/nato_report_final.pdf>
(2009), *Climatic
Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate
Change*
<http://www.amazon.com/Climatic-Cataclysm-National-Security-Implications/dp/0815713320>
(2008), *Transforming NATO (…again)*
<http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/061114_nato_primer.pdf> (2006),
and *America
and the World in the Age of Terror*
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0892064528>
(2005). She co-directed the Transatlantic Dialogue on Terrorism, which
examined U.S.-European disagreements over the root causes of terrorism.

Earlier, Ms. Smith served as deputy director and senior fellow in the CSIS
International Security Program, where she oversaw the management of more
than 30 security-related projects and focused on a range of European
security issues, including European defense integration, transatlantic
cooperation on climate change, and EU-U.S. counterterrorism cooperation.

Ms. Smith has also worked at the German Marshall Fund, the Association of
the U.S. Army on the Project on the Role of American Military Power, and
the British American Security Information Council. In 1996/97, she worked
in Germany at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik as a Robert Bosch
Foundation Fellow.

Ms. Smith is a recipient of the American Academy in Berlin Public Policy
Fellowship and the Fredin Memorial Scholarship for study at the Sorbonne in
Paris. She received her B.A. from Xavier University and her M.A. from
American University. She spent a year learning German at the University of
Munich. Ms. Smith serves on the Advisory Council of the Alliance for
Security Democracy; the Board of Advisors of the Truman National Security
Project; and the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for
Contemporary German Studies. She is an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies.
She is currently an Associate Fellow with Chatham House, home of the Royal
Institute for International Affairs, in London, and a Senior Associate with
the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies.

*Running for Congress – could have discussions before November as backup*

*Tom Malinowski*

Tom Malinowski is running for Congress in New Jersey. He previously served
as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
Previously, from 2001, he was Washington Director for Human Rights Watch,
one of the world’s leading independent international organizations
dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. From 1998 to 2001, he
served as Senior Director on the National Security Council at the White
House, where he oversaw the drafting of President Clinton’s foreign policy
speeches and strategic communications efforts around the world. From 1994
to 1998 he was a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Warren Christopher
and Madeleine Albright, and member of the Policy Planning Staff at the
Department of State.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Malinowski worked as a research assistant for
the Ford Foundation in 1993, and for the Institute for Human Sciences in
Vienna, Austria, in 1992. He began his career as a Special Assistant for
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1988. Mr. Malinowski received a B.A.
from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.Phil. from Oxford
University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

*Lauren Baer*

Lauren Baer is running for Congress in Florida. An attorney and foreign
policy expert, Lauren served as an official in the Obama Administration
from 2011-2017, acting as a senior advisor to Secretaries of State Hillary
Clinton and John Kerry, and to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Samantha Power. During her time in government, she was responsible for
ensuring that the promotion of U.S. values remained central to foreign
policy and advised on a range of critical national security issues related
to human rights and international law. With a reputation for strong
management skills and success working across the aisle, Lauren also oversaw
large-scale initiatives to make government work better, and to engage
everyday people and businesses on U.S. foreign policy. Earlier in her
career, Lauren was a litigator whose practice focused on international
disputes and federal appeals. As an attorney committed to justice and
fairness, she had an active pro bono practice that included taking the
fight to get money out of politics all the way to the Supreme Court.

*Elissa Slotkin*

 A former U.S. Department of Defense official has launched a campaign for
the Democratic nomination in Michigan's 8th Congressional district, a seat
currently held by U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop.

Elissa Slotkin, who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA before holding
several positions with the U.S. State Department and the Department of
Defense, announced her candidacy at a Monday morning campaign event in
Lansing.

Slotkin's most recently served as a top adviser to two Secretaries of
Defense on the Middle East, Europe and NATO, Russia, Africa, and the
Western Hemisphere. She recently moved back to her family's farm in Holly
after 15 years holding several intelligence and national defense posts
during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama