TAMPA, FLORIDA (May 2, 2024) – The Global and National Security Institute (GNSI) at the University of South Florida (USF) is excited to announce the newest members of its GNSI Fellows Program, a growing and evolving group of highly successful thought leaders and experts from a mixture of academics, practitioners and industry professionals who share GNSI's vision of becoming an internationally recognized thought leader across the global and national security environment.
Previously, GNSI has focused on growing the Faculty Senior Fellows and Non-Resident Senior Fellows rosters, with a total of 42 distinguished and diverse professors, writers and experts that advance GNSI on its mission of providing actionable solutions to 21st-century security challenges at the local, state, national and international levels.
The newest members of the GNSI Fellows Program, however, open up an entirely new classification: Non-Resident Distinguished Fellows. GNSI Academic Director David Oakley, PhD, who leads the Fellows Program for GNSI, said it is essential that the Fellows roster encompasses as many diverse lines of thinking, insights, and experiences as possible, including expanding GNSI’s connections to an ever-widening security community.
"Understanding and responding to complex security challenges requires a collaborative approach. USF and GNSI will benefit from the experiences of these five Non-Resident Distinguished Fellows who each bring a unique perspective from their time leading public and private sector organizations.”
The first GNSI NON-RESIDENT DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS:
- Dr. Joseph Helman, Official with the Senior National Intelligence Service, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and adjunct professor at Georgetown University
- Ambassador (Ret) Greta Holtz, President and CEO for Amideast, and former ambassador to Oman
- Jags Kandasamy, CEO of LatentAI
- Command Chief Master Sergeant (Ret) Greg Smith, CEO of Tigre Global Solutions, Inc. and former Command Senior Enlisted Leader at U.S. Special Operations Command
- Douglas Wise, former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
View the Fellows webpage here.