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Federal Executive Fellows 2011-12
Lieutenant Colonel Eduardo A. Abisellan, United States Marine Corps
Lieutenant Colonel Abisellan has served in the Marine Corps for over 20 years and has a diverse career as both an artilleryman and logistician. His operational experience ranges from the Pacific region to Iraq, the Gulf States, and Afghanistan. His staff assignments have spanned from conventional artillery commands at the battalion and regimental levels to Marine Expeditionary Forces and joint duty with U.S. Central Command.
Lieutenant Colonel Abisellan graduated from The Military College of South Carolina, The Citadel, in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He’s a graduate of the U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer Basic and Advanced Course, Naval Command and Staff College, and the Joint Forces Staff College. He has a master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Randall A. Blake, National Counterterrorism Center
With 25 years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Randall Blake most recently served at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Mr. Blake worked as a substantive issue manager ensuring the president, congressional leaders, and other senior policymakers received current threat and trends-based strategic analysis of broad-based threats to the U.S. homeland.
Prior to his detail to NCTC he served in several leadership positions in the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Joint Intelligence Task Force—Combating Terrorism (JITF-CT). Before joining DIA, Mr. Blake served as the chief of the Counterterrorism Analysis Team at the U.S. European Command's Joint Analysis Center in Molesworth, England. He began his federal career in 1986 at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
Mr. Blake obtained his bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Certificate in International Relations from the University of Utah and a Masters in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix, Arizona.
Captain Scott W. Clendenin, United States Coast Guard
Captain Scott Clendenin has served at sea on five Coast Guard cutters, commanding three cutters. In his most recent tour, he commanded USCGC CAMPBELL (WMEC 909), a 270 foot multi-missioned Coast Guard cutter. His operational experience at sea has included homeland security, counterdrug law enforcement, illegal migrant, fisheries enforcement, and search and rescue operations in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Eastern Pacific. Captain Clendenin has also led international maritime engagements and combined operations with several Latin American nations, including Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, and Caribbean island nations. His ashore assignments included serving as the deputy commander of the Coast Guard Cryptologic Group, the Coast Guard attaché assigned to the U.S. Defense Attaché office in the Dominican Republic, and the Maritime Watch Coordinator at the El Paso Intelligence Center.
Captain Clendenin holds a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College, and a Master of Arts in Management and Human Resources from Webster University. He is a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. His Joint Military Intelligence College thesis evaluated a model to analyze illegal migration trends and flow, and his Webster University thesis studied methods to measure interagency customer satisfaction with the maritime services at the El Paso Intelligence Center.
Colonel Lourdes M. Duvall, United States Air Force
Colonel Lourdes Duvall is an Air Force intelligence officer with over 18 years experience in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations and all-source analysis. She supported numerous combat and humanitarian operations while assigned to special operations aviation units, intelligence squadrons, operations centers, the Air Staff and the Joint Staff. While serving in the Joint Staff Directorate of Intelligence, Future Capabilities Division, she led assessments of warfighter requirements and intelligence acquisition programs, advising defense department decisions on future programs. She most recently commanded an intelligence squadron in South Korea, conducting combined operations with the Republic of Korea Air Force.
Colonel Duvall graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science in political science. She holds a master’s degree in military operational art and science from Air University and a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She served on the faculty of Air Command and Staff College, Department of International Security and Military Studies.
Colonel Karl Gingrich, United States Army
Colonel Karl Gingrich is an Operations Research/Systems Analyst (ORSA) in the U. S. Army with over 22 years of service. He has just returned from an operational assignment with NATO Training Mission—Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command—Afghanistan (NTM-A/CSTC-A) where he served as the Chief of Assessments from June 2010 to June 2011. Prior to his latest operational tour, he led the Army’s POM development while serving on the Army Staff in G-8, Programs, Analysis and Evaluation Directorate. He has also served on the Joint Staff, J-8, and was the senior cost analyst on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. His other operational tour was as the Chief of Force Management for Iraqi Army Forces while assigned to the Multinational Security Transition Command—Iraq (MNSTC-I).
Colonel Gingrich graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He holds master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Louisville and in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. His military education includes the Air Command and Staff College and Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Lieutenant Audry T. Oxley, United States Navy
Lieutenant Audry Oxley is a native of Lamar, Colorado. Oxley has served onboard the USS YORKTOWN (CG 48), USS GONZALEZ (DDG 66) and on the staffs of Commander, Destroyer Squadron SIX and Commander, Naval Reserve Forces Command. Oxley has completed a counter-narcotics deployment, a counter piracy deployment, and participated in numerous exercises held in South and Central America.
Lieutenant Oxley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in International Relations and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Louisiana State University.
Dr. Ursula M. Wilder, Intelligence Community
Dr. Ursula M. Wilder is a clinical psychologist with 16 years of Federal Service in the Intelligence Community, where she specializes in the psychology of espionage and terrorism. She is on the editorial board of Studies in Intelligence and was guest editor of a special international issue of the journal on the theme of psychology and counterterrorism. She was commissioned by the board to be project leader of a publication entitled “CIA at War” and was editor of a collection of book and movie reviews written by intelligence officers assessing works of fiction and film centered on themes of espionage and terrorism. She is a recipient of the George H. W. Bush award for excellence in counterterrorism.
Dr. Wilder graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1981, completed a clinical internship at the Howard University Hospital Department of Psychiatry, and obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University in 1992. In 2006 she completed a Master’s in Theological Studies from the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.