Mansfield Center Advisory Board

croppedmarcracicot.pngMarc Racicot, Board Chair

Former Governer of the State of Montana

David BellDavid Bell, Previous Board Chair

President and CEO, ALPS Corporation

Jon BennionJon Bennion

Government Relations Director, The Washington Companies

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President, Radio Free Asia

 

m-georgiouMaritsa Georgiou

National Correspondent, Newsy

lmhbio2.jpgLarik Hall

Consumer and Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs Ayco; Liaison, Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors
Nancy Keenan

Nancy Keenan

Former Executive Director, Montana Democratic Party

 

Paul Lauren Dr. Paul Lauren

Regents Professor Emeritus; Founding Director, Mansfield Center

 

Tom LopachTom Lopach

President and CEO, Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information

 

liz-m_484-1.pngLiz Marchi

Founder, Frontier Angel Fund and Head of Community Engagement, Two Bear Capital

 

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Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University

matthew-morgan.jpg Matthew Morgan

Chief Operating Officer and Partner of EisnerAmper

shelton-photo-for-mansfield-center.jpgJoanna R. Shelton

UM Faculty Affiliate in Economics and Nonresident Senior Associate in Economics for the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Kimberlee VisserKimberlee Visser

Designer, Community Advocate, Business Advisor

 

Bryce WardBryce Ward

Founder of ABMJ Consulting, Research Associate at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana

 

Terry WeidnerDr. Terry Weidner

Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Former Mansfield Center Executive Director

 

Mansfield Fellows

Otto Koester

Senior Fellow, International Negotiation and Conflict Management

Contact

Email
otto.koester@mso.umt.edu
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Otto Koester

Personal Summary

Otto Koester has been a Peace Corps Volunteer (1968-70); a Lecturer at Princeton University (1974-76); the Deputy Director of the Salzburg Seminar, (1984-88); a Program Officer with the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC (1989-93); and the Director of Grant writing at the University of Montana (2003-2010).

He was Co-Director of the Confucius Institute and maintains teaching and research interests in international negotiation and conflict management, especially between the United States and China.

He served as the Associate Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center from 2010-2013.

Education

Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs, Duke University, 1978-79
M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971
B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1967