Leadership
Secretariat
Secretary General – Katherine Lange
Katherine Lange is a junior majoring in International Affairs and Modern Languages, specializing in French culture and communications. She has been with the Georgia Tech Model United Nations Conference since she began at the Institute in 2006, serving two years as Director of the Social, Cultural and Humanitarian Committee. She will be continuing her francophone studies in Brussels, Belgium this summer where she will be studying trans-Atlantic relations, and will continue her international studies during the Spring semester, 2009 at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.
Director General – Theresa Frame
Theresa Frame is an International Affairs and Modern Languages major at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her concentration is on the German language and the background of the European Union. Previously she has served as Assistant Director to the International Atomic Energy Agency committee and Director to the World Health Organization committee. Theresa will be studying abroad in Germany in the summer of 2008 and hopes to intern at a European Union or NATO agency before graduating in the fall semester of 2009.
Conference Director – Merek Gourley
Merek Gourley is a junior at Georgia Tech and majors in Biomedical Engineering. He has participated in Model United Nations for seven years including three years with the Georgia Tech Model United Nations Conference. He has served as the Director of the Disarmament and International Security Committee as well as the Director of the Plenary Committee. Merek has studied abroad in Spain, Germany, France, and Italy and hopes to expand his experience with Hispanic culture by traveling to South America in 2009.
Faculty Advisors
Dr. Molly Cochran is Director of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. She has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses include ethics and international affairs, international relations theory, global democratic theory and justice debates, and interstate and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Cochran is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach and articles in the Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and Millenium. At present, she is writing a book entitled Democratic Global Governance and International Public Spheres. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Political Theory and a reviewer for several journals and presses. She recently returned from working at Human Rights Watch in London as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.
Dr. William J. Long is the Chair of and a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focuses include international conflict resolution and international trade and technology transfer and their relationship to national security, economic competitiveness, and international cooperation. Under his tenure, the School’s faculty expanded by over fifty percent and external sponsorship increased several fold. He is the author of three books: War and Reconciliation, Trade and Technology Incentives and Bilateral Cooperation, and U.S. Export Control Policy. He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters. He is the recipient of research and teaching awards from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hewlett, Pew, Sloan, McCune and MacArthur Foundations, the Fulbright Commission, the Carnegie Corporation, the European Union, and the U.S. Department of Education. Before entering academics, he practiced international law at the Washington, D.C., offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.