Dr. Weber is a computational social scientist and an expert on media ecosystems, organizational dynamics, and the use of large-scale digital data in research. He teaches courses on strategic communication and media management. Dr. Weber joined the Naval Postgraduate School as a Senior Lecturer in 2024.

Winli McAnally has over two decades of experience in professional development and education of Navy leaders at all levels. Since 2006, Winli has been working at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Executive Education and helped establish the Navy Executive Development Program. She became the Director of the Center for Executive Education March 2015. In this role, Winli leads a diverse team focused on a comprehensive approach to developing leaders and their teams to enhance strategic organizational effectiveness and readiness. Read complete profile.

E. John M. Smart, M.S. (Futures Studies, U. Houston), M.S.Eq. (Physiology & Medicine, UCSD) (Civ) has twenty-two years of experience as a strategic foresight educator, living and complex adaptive systems scholar, and student of global trends and emerging technology dynamics, risks, opportunities and uncertainties. As CEO of Foresight U (consultancy), he teaches the psychology of foresight, adaptive foresight practices for individuals and teams (the PCA Model, the OODA Loop, the Eight Skills), and adaptive future stories ("futures") for teams, organizations, and society. His textbook, Introduction to Foresight, 2022, is a primer on personal, team, and organizational foresight practices. In complexity, his focus is on protective, creative, and adaptive processes in living systems, and their analogs in organizations and human-technology networks. He co-directs the Evo-Devo Institute (EvoDevoUniverse.org), a global complexity research and publication community (Evolution, Development, and Complexity, 2019). In technology dynamics and defense strategy, he studies exponential technologies, bio-inspired artificial intelligence, bio-inspired security, network-centric offensive and defensive strategies, human-machine teaming, and AI alignment.

He has written for two decades on emerging technology topics including The Conversational Interface (2003), Military Human Performance Enhancement (2005), the Metaverse and Digital Twins (2008), Open Internet Video (2010), Neural Emulation (2012), Digital Dematerialization (2014), Blockchain (2016), Personal AIs (2016), Air Taxi Networks (2018), Pandemic Biosurveillance (2020), Nuclear Proliferation Threats (2022), and Natural AI Alignment (2023). He has taught seminars and courses on foresight development, foresight leadership, and exponential technologies at the U. Houston, Singularity University, U. of Advancing Technology, the CA Law Enforcement Command College, and the Naval Postgraduate School. John has lectured and workshopped since 2004 for the Air War College, Army Science Board, Army Training and Doctrine Command, Army War College, DARPA, FBI Futures Working Group, Navy-Joint Capabilities and Integration (N83), National Air and Space Intelligence Center, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, the US Naval Institute, and NPS. John has an honorary PhD in Technology Education from the U. of Advancing Technology (2008) and an Outstanding Faculty Award from the CA Law Enforcement Command College (2011). He is a member of the ACM SIGs on Artificial Intelligence and Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, the Association of Professional Futurists, the Complex Systems Society, the National Defense Industrial Association, the Network Science Society, and the US Naval Institute.

Winli McAnally has over two decades of experience in professional development and education of Navy leaders at all levels. Since 2006, Winli has been working at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Executive Education and helped establish the Navy Executive Development Program. She became the Director of the Center for Executive Education March 2015. In this role, Winli leads a diverse team focused on a comprehensive approach to developing leaders and their teams to enhance strategic organizational effectiveness and readiness. She administers an academic schedule of twenty-five formal courses for the Navy's senior leadership and designs and delivers over twenty ad hoc programs tailored to command requirements. She developed the Tailored Support (TS) course for Flag Officers transferring to new assignments; the unique TS program is acclaimed for streamlining the Flag transition process, better preparing Flags for their next assignment and enabling Flag Officers to more quickly adapt to the demands of their new commands. She and her team also develop customized Command Leadership Team courses that effectively accelerate strategic alignment and team development.

Winli is certified in a number of executive coaching tools, and serves as a facilitator for various executive-level education workshops offered to senior Navy leaders and their teams around the country.

Prior to joining CEE, Winli served as the Deputy Director of the EMBA program in the NPS Graduate School of Business and Public Policy and supported the International Defense Acquisition Resource Management Program in the School of International Graduate Studies.

Ms McAnally received her undergraduate degree from University of Virginia and holds a Master's degree in Marine Sciences and Oceanography from University of San Diego.

She spent over five years conducting biological and ecological research in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada and Mono Lake, CA; and served two years in Alaska on the NOAA Ship RAINIER.

A technological researcher focusing on digital Darwinism and the impact of technological disruption on businesses, government, and society who sold his first piece of software at the ripe age of 16 in 1983, Alan Webber is currently an instructor on technology trends and impacts for the Navy Senior Leaders Seminar and the program manager and an instructor in the new Leading in a Cognitive Age program on artificial intelligence at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).  In addition to teaching at NPS, Alan is a Program Vice President at IDC where he led the National Security and Technology research practice and currently leads a global team of analysts covering a broad range of consumer and customer facing technologies.

Previously, Alan served as the lead strategic planner and desk officer in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of the Interior, a Fellow at the FBI Academy focusing on technology and cyber-terrorism, a senior business analyst for SRA, an analyst at the National Science Foundation, and as a military police officer in the U.S. Army where he served in the U.S., Japan, Central America, Operation Desert Storm/Shield, and other locations.  Alan has worked with a number of government entities on technology issues and impacts including DoD, EPA, FEMA, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, the IRS, Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, various intelligence agencies, and other U.S. and international government agencies along with over 300 of the Fortune 500 private sector companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Comcast, Lockheed Martin, Walt Disney, Salesforce, Adobe, UPS, Verizon, Intel, Oracle, SAP, GE, Google, AT&T, IBM, Dell, Exxon, and others.  Alan received his BA, an MA, and an MS degree from Colorado State University and is ABD for his Ph.D. from the George Washington University.

Ann is a Program Manager, Lecturer, Workshop Facilitator, and Researcher for the Center for Executive Education (CEE) at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Ann’s NPS teaching and research directions focus on strategic organizational design and development. For CEE she facilitates and codesigns strategy, leadership, and design workshops for senior leaders and their executive teams.

Ann’s NPS research work begins with emerging environmental, process, or technological trends to help identify areas to create new capabilities and organizational change to maintain relevancy and prosper. In this capacity she has worked with policy and battery experts at the OUSD Industrial Policy to craft an advanced battery policy as a complex adaptive system to better navigate global supply chains and shifting economic landscapes. Other research includes Navy Acquisition research exposing the risks imposed by mounting computer technical debt in warfighting systems, and using an oral history to document how the USMC integrates its reservists into warfighting components.

Formally trained in genetics, mathematics, and design, Ann’s ability to create synergies between technical and business trends provides the basis for the consulting corporation she has led for twenty-eight years. In this capacity she helped create immersive learning software for college and graduate level courses. Her work expanded into organizational develop and change through market shifts accelerated by rapid computer software innovations and economic globalization.

Bob Huddleston, a native of Texas, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in Marine Engineering. He served as a Naval Intelligence Officer, specializing in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. 

While in the Navy, he served in every major theater of the world, with assignments at the Squadron, Air Wing, Strike Group, Fleet, Joint, National and NATO levels. He conducted eight overseas deployments on numerous aircraft carriers and flagships and was stationed in operational intelligence assignments overseas and in the U.S.

His Navy assignments in Washington D.C. included serving as a Congressional Liaison Officer to both the Senate and the House of Representatives, as the Air Warfare Intelligence Officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, and as Deputy of the Naval Forces Department in the Office of Naval Intelligence. His last assignment was as Director of a multi-million dollar rapid-prototyping research and development center dedicated to improving the tactical utility of U.S. national reconnaissance satellites.

After the Navy, Bob Huddleston ran his own consultant practice for twelve years, providing executive-level services to senior leadership within the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Community, and the defense industry on a wide array of strategy, policy, programmatic and technical issues.

He returned to government service in 2015 to provide oversight of the Navy’s Executive Development Program and to run the Navy Senior Leader Seminar. He currently serves as an executive coach, a lecturer and a facilitator for multiple executive development programs and workshops offered to senior leaders and their teams across the U.S.

Bob Huddleston is a graduate of the Naval War College and holds a master’s degree in International Studies. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and an instrument-rated private pilot. He and his wife reside in Fairfax, Virginia and have two adult sons.

Professor Neal Thornberry, PhD is the Faculty Director for Innovation Initiatives at the Center for Executive Education at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Babson College in Massachusetts. He has been a visiting lecturer at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Ashridge Management College (UK), HEC (France), and Tsinghua University (China) and the Darden School.

His current work at NPS involves the design and delivery of the Creating a Culture of Innovation (CCI ) program for officers and civilians actively involved in Navy innovation efforts. This intensive 3-day course helps Navy personnel create both a strategy and an architecture for implementing innovation within their respective communities.

Dr. Thornberry is also involved in the Navy Senior Leaders course at NPS where he teaches innovation and change leadership to Navy officers. He is frequently asked to give keynote speeches on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship various organizations including the Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and other organizations interested in increasing their IQ (innovation quotient).

Dr. Thornberry holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology and specializes in the areas of Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Organizational Transformation. His previous book, “Lead Like an Entrepreneur: Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive in the Corporation” (McGraw-Hill, 2007), reflects over a decade’s experience helping organizations grow through the application of innovative thinking and entrepreneurial orientation. His EOS (Entrepreneurial Orientation Survey ) is still used as the basis for Doctoral Theses around the world. His latest book “Innovation Judo: Disarming Roadblocks & Blockheads on the Path to Creativity” (Evolve Publishing, 2014) helps leaders and innovators overcome the barriers they often face in ushering in the new. (www.amazon.com)

Professor Thornberry has written a number of articles and cases on business management in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work has appeared in the European Management Journal, Project Management Journal, Behavioural Science, Fortune Magazine, Industry Week, Business Week, The European Management Journal, and The Journal of Management Development. His article "A View About Vision" was selected as one of the keystone articles for inclusion in Contemporary Issues in Leadership (1998).

He has taught and consulted with numerous organizations around the world including Ford Motor Company, Daimler AG, Chrysler, IBM, KCI, SmithKline-Glaxo, SAP, Nationwide Insurance, Home Depot, France Telecom, Sodexho, Arcelor Steel, Alfa Laval, GE, Fresenius Medical, Cisco Systems, and Motts. As a subject matter expert, he is often a keynote speaker for NGO’s as well as public sector & military organizations including the Navy (NWDC, CNIC, BUMED, and NAE), the United States Coast Guard, the Human Capital Institute, the U.S. Government, ATB Financial (Alberta Treasury Branches), PDI (Professional Developers of Iowa), IRI (retail industry group), the Republic of Thailand, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of Boston, and Kimberly-Clark.

Since 2005, Chip has served as a Senior Lecturer in Management for the Naval Postgraduate School in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy and the Center for Executive Education. For the Business School, he currently teaches the Capstone Course for the Executive Masters in Business Administration Program. For the Center for Executive Education, he teaches in the Navy Senior Leader Seminar for high potential Senior Officers and Civilians preparing to move into executive level assignments, he manages the Executive Development and Coaching Programs for the Center, and he coaches Admirals in between assignments helping them prepare for their next assignment.

Dr. Stephens works at the intersection of research and practice. A student of organizations, she works as an instructor, facilitator and researcher to bridge academia and industry, allowing each to inform and motivate the other. She is a faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School where she is the Program Manager for the Strategic Communication Workshop and the Leadership and Communication for Senior Supervisors Program. She is also an instructor in the Navy Senior Leader Seminar at the Center for Executive Education. Dr. Stephens has facilitated extensively with organizations across enterprise and operational domains.

He has been an executive with two Fortune 500 companies and a leader of executive education at three highly respected US business schools, serving as:

• Assistant Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
• Assistant Dean, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• Director, Executive MBA, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver

He has taught executive seminars for the University of Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego. He has worked with the NPS Center for Executive Education since 2004 when he became the academic program director for the Navy’s Executive Business Course and later the Navy Corporate Business Course.

Thousands of executives have participated in highly-rated educational programs and coaching developed or delivered by Paul for executives from companies such as Bain & Company, Cisco Systems, Sybase, Medtronic, Experian, Energizer, Microsoft, Synopsis, British Telecom, CA Dept. of Corporations, Kodak, CA Judicial Council, Boehringer Ingelheim, Apple, Saudi Aramco, Hewlett Packard, Nestle, IFC World Bank, BancoMex, CMG IT Services, TAG Aviation, Intel, and numerous US Navy Commands within NAVSEA, NAVAIR, NAVFAC, NAVSUP, METOC, ONI, OJAG, NAVSAFECENT, NAVOBSY & BUMED.

Dr. Stames is a dynamic speaker and educator on topics related to Strategy and Leadership, such as effective leadership performance, leading change, strategic thinking, strategy and innovation, implementing strategy, global leadership, network leadership, team leadership, values-driven leadership, and credo-centered leadership.

He has led and taught in executive programs in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa. He has pioneered innovative, experiential executive education such as a 3-day leadership and team-building sailing program that combines the expertise of business school faculty and crew members from an Americas Cup challenger. This program has became the flagship experience for the Executive MBA at the Daniels College of Business.

As President and Founder of The Leadership Council, Dr. Stames created a national network to provide personal and professional development resources to more than 1,000 CEOs and top executives across the United States. His experience includes working with a variety of leaders including dot.com entrepreneurs, government executives, healthcare administrators, high-tech engineers, military leaders, clergy, university leaders, and nonprofit volunteers.

Paul has a BA degree from Duke University, an MA degree from Yale University, a diploma from the Advanced Management Program at Washington University, and his Doctorate from the San Francisco Theological Seminary at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.

Jenn Pilotti, M.S., entered the fitness field in 2001. She writes for several websites, including Breaking Muscle and Think Movement, and teaches workshops on anatomy, biomechanics, and proprioception throughout California. She also owns and maintains a private practice at Be Well Personal Training, a boutique studio in Carmel, California. She holds numerous certifications, and is a continuing education provider for the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Rich Grenhart is an experienced clinician, coach and educator. He has taught at the middle school, college and adult levels. He has been active in leadership development and executive coaching since 1998. Building on over 30 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, he has coached and trained hundreds of leaders from first-time managers to senior executives. An active adjunct faculty member with the Center for Creative Leadership and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he has had the opportunity to work with leaders from all corners of business, industry, government and the military.

Audra Adair is a native of Arizona. After graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science in Exercise Physiology she received four national health certifications. As a wellness educator and competitive athlete for the past fifteen years, Audra Adair has been an avid health facilitator for professionals. Drawing on her university education and experience as an Ironman triathlete, Audra uses a comprehensive approach to wellness.

During her time in Pensacola she worked as a research assistant at NAMRL (Navy Aerospace Medical Research Lab), using the ROBD (Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device) as a mode of non-exercise induced cardiac stress testing in developing a research grant. While at NAMRL
she conducted cognitive screen studies as well as pilot vigilant testing using the ROBD. After moving to Cherry Point NC, Audra became a certified Lifestyles and Weight management consultant and came to work with a Bariatric surgeon as the practice exercise physiologist. Feeling the need to be a part of the Return to Readiness program at NAS Cherry Point, she took a position as a Wellness Educator delivering PME (Professional Military Education) and directing BCP (Body Composition Program).

Audra entered into a seven year career in physical and occupational therapy in Havelock NC at a multi practitioner clinic, as a staff physiologist writing pre- and post-surgical rehab programs, researching new exercise protocol, and maintaining intra office educational requirements.

In the fall of 2009 Audra came aboard the Center for Executive Education (CEE) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) as a SME in Wellness and Health. During the past ten years at CEE, Audra has lectured at the NSLS (Navy Senior Leaders Seminar), ST (Strategic Thinking), and TS (Tailored Support) courses at various locations to include NPS, the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Darden School of Business at UVA Charlottesville. Audra has designed wellness programs for over one thousand military leaders from Captain to Vice Admiral. As the Wellness track leader at CEE, Audra has worked to develop senior leaders in broadening their scope of expertise in the areas of nutrition, stress management, sleep solutions, injury prevention and wellness.

Her competitive triathlete career began in 2000. After countless age group and overall awards she has risen to the level of a world class athlete while qualifying for multiple World Championships. Audra believes that living an active healthy lifestyle while balancing home, career and family not only lead her to a long athletic career but will serve to lead and motivate others to be their best and pursue their goals.

Captain Joseph (Joe) Andrilla, USN, Retired, served on active duty for 30 years and has extensive propulsion engineering, combat systems engineering and project management experience. He has served as an operational warfare commander of a carrier strike group, as a Destroyer Squadron Commander and as Commanding Officer of a Pacific Fleet guided missile destroyer. He has taught Economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, been a NAVSEA major program manager and has commanded a Naval Surface Warfare Center.  Captain Andrilla has been a coach and SPEAR and SCW workshop facilitator for the past 8 years.

William (“Bill”) F. Lincoln’s proven effectiveness as an educator and trainer is enhanced by his 40+ years of experience as a practitioner of negotiations and mediation in diverse, critical and often highly volatile scenarios involving governmental, private, community, environmental and international sectors.

Education

• 1967 - MA/MD Colgate Rochester

• 1964 - BA [Cum Laude] Franklin College of Indiana

Faculty Credentials: Negotiations, Collaborative Planning and Mediation

• 2006-present - Senior Lecturer, Center for Executive Education, Naval Postgraduate School Courses: NSLS, TS, and ESC

• 1986-95 and 2005-present - Adjunct Faculty U.S. Federal Executive Institute

• 2000-2012 - Senior Faculty, VISN 20 Executive Program’s “Core Competency Leadership Series”, Veterans Administration, Puget Sound Health Care System, Center for Education and Development

• 1994-2009 - Adjunct Faculty, St. Petersburg State University [Russia], Department of Conflictology

• 1978-81 - Academic Conference Workshop Leader-Harvard University Law School, with R. Fisher & W. Ury [and so acknowledged in Getting to Yes]

• 1976-81 - Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Teaching Faculty

Professional Credentials and Recognition

• 2009 Special Recognition Award by the Russian Congress of Conflictology (in conjunction with St. Petersburg State University) Recognition of the foreigner who did the most to advance conflictology in Russia
• 2009 Distinguished Alumnus awarded by Colgate Rochester
• 2006 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Laureate awarded by the regional Scandinavian Community
• 2004 Award of Excellence by the International Academy of Mediators
• 2003 Master Forum Award of Excellence by the Straus Center for Dispute Resolution of Pepperdine University’s School of Law
• 1994 Doctor of Humane Letters [DHL / Honorary Degree / Franklin College]
• 1981 and 1982 Wilton Park Fellow, England
• 1979-80 Appointed by US House of Representatives Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill to serve as one of nine Federal Commissioners on the United States Commission to Hear and Examine Proposals for the National Academy for Peace and Conflict Resolution. The findings and recommendations of this Commission resulted in Congress establishing the United States Institute of Peace [USIP].

International Involvements:

Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, USSR, Russia, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, England, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, China, Canada, Sudan (in accord with US laws).

Mr. David Beard (Major, USMC) was medically retired as the result of a high-speed ejection while serving as an instructor at the Naval Test Pilot School. He subsequently worked 25 years for Northrop Grumman.  Much of his experience focused on training in management and leadership development.  This included the design, development and management of the Sector Ethics Program and focus on “Ethical Leadership”.  Eleven years ago he retired from Northrop and has subsequently provided ethics training and consulting to a broad array of military, industry, government and academic personnel.  David’s unique approach integrates his life experience and hands-on experience managing an ethics program that literally touched thousands of personnel within industry and government.

David Breashears is a filmmaker, adventurer, author, and mountaineer. Since 1978 he has combined his skills in climbing and filmmaking to complete a wide variety of adventure film projects. Over the past twenty-eight years, Breashears has worked on 40 film projects, ranging from full-length feature films to music videos. A sampling of his film credits include: Co-producer and Second Unit Director of Working Title Films’ dramatic feature film EVEREST (2004-2005); Producer, Director and Director of Photography for Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa (2001); Co-producer, Co-director and Director of Photography for Everest: The Death Zone (1997); Director of Photography for Seven Years In Tibet (1996); Co-Producer, Co-Director, Director of Photography, Expedition Leader for the IMAX film Everest (1996); Director of Photography and Field-producer for Mystery of the Inca Mummy (1995), a National Geographic Explorer film shot in Peru; Director of Photography and Producer of the Telluride Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize-winning Red Flag Over Tibet (1994), a Frontline, WGBH-TV program shot in Tibet, India and Nepal; and Cliffhanger (1993), a feature film starring Sylvester Stallone, for which he was a cameraman, climbing consultant and advisor.

In 1983, Breashears transmitted the first live television pictures from the summit of Mount Everest, and in 1985 became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice. The recipient of four National Emmy Awards for achievement in cinematography, he is one of the world's most experienced adventure filmmakers. His work has taken him to remote locations in Tibet, China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Central Asia and East Africa.

In the spring of 1996 Breashears co-directed and photographed the first ever IMAX film on Mount Everest. When the now infamous blizzard of May 10, 1996 hit Mount Everest, killing eight climbers, Breashears and his team were in the midst of making this historic film. In the tragedy that soon followed, Breashears and his team stopped filming to assist several of the stranded climbers to safety. He and his expedition members were later recognized for their courageous efforts. Breashears and his team then regrouped and reached the summit of the mountain on May 23, 1996 achieving their goal of becoming the first to attain IMAX film images from the top of the world. Breashears has said that if there is a lesson to be learned from the May ’96 tragedy, it is that for him, success was not being the first IMAX team to summit, it was that everyone on his team returned safely. The film, titled Everest, premiered in March 1998 and has been shown in more than 300 IMAX theaters throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The allure of Mount Everest made this project the most eagerly anticipated and most successful IMAX film of all time.

In 1997 he co-produced and photographed Everest: The Death Zone for the PBS series NOVA, once again reaching the summit of Everest with camera in hand. This was his fourth ascent. He is the author or co-author of three best-selling books; Everest: Mountain Without Mercy (National Geographic Books), Last Climb (National Geographic Books), and his published memoir High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Simon & Schuster). His most recent IMAX film about Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa is also subject of the National Geographic book published in 2002, Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa.

Breashears’ is presently engaged as Co-producer and Second Unit Director of Working Title Films’ dramatic feature film EVEREST which will chronicle the tragic events on Everest in 1996. Equipped with a 35mm motion picture camera and 35mm stills camera, David made is fifth ascent of Everest while leading his handpicked team to the summit in Spring 2004 to shoot background images for the film. A documentary of Breashears’ ascent, and the extreme challenges of high-altitude filmmaking, was recorded by team members using digital video cameras. Stephen Daldry, director of the Academy Award nominated films Billy Elliot and The Hours, will direct the film. EVEREST will start principal photography in Spring 2005 and will be released worldwide by Universal Studios.
 

Dr. Jon Gant is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Gant is a leading scholar of the strategic management and planning of information systems in public-sector organizations. Dr. Gant has extensive research and teaching experience on how to leverage information and communication technologies to improve the services, operations and performance of large complex organizations.

Dr. Gant is studying electronic-government internationally and assists developing countries through his research, consultations, and executive education training. Dr. Gant is also an expert in geographic information systems with over 20 years of experience. Dr. Gant has taught executive education courses for the National Security Studies program and for NAVSEA.

Dr. Gant earned MS and PhD degrees from the Heinz School of Public Policy of Carnegie Mellon University in Public Policy and Information Systems.