University of South Florida’s GNSI Announces Newest Additions to Fellows Roster
05.14.2026 at 12:38am
Congratulations to the 2026 Global and National Security Institute Non-resident fellows!
Read about the newest fellows in this press release from GNSI.
The Newest Members of the GNSI Fellows Team
| Egemen Bezci, PhD | Principal Data Scientist, Payla |
| Jim Cahill, PhD | Adjunct Professor, Dakota State University, U.S. Army Colonel (Ret) |
| Mark Fedor | Senior Director of Programs, HII, Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret) |
| COL Nathan Finney, PhD | Director, Commander’s Initiatives Group, U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC) |
| Nick Fisher | Partner, Longbow Capital Partners |
| Scott Kessler, PhD | Data Scientist, Strider Technologies |
| Seong-Hyon Lee, PhD | Senior Fellow, George H.W. Bush Foundation |
| Joseph Long, PhD | Program Manager, Senior Policy Analyst, ASW SOLIC’s Office of IO Policy at the Pentago |
| Zbigniew Nowak, PhD | Vice Rector for Student Affairs, Assistant Professor, War Studies University (Poland) |
| Jay Parker, PhD | Adjunct Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
| Rebecca Patterson, PhD | Director and Professor of the Practice, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University |
| Jarrod Pendlebury, PhD | Director, General Strategy and Planning, Royal Australian Air Force |
| John Pennell, PhD | Senior Practitioner and Curriculum Developer, Irregular Warfare Center |
| Joseph Swiecki, PhD | CIA’s rep to the U.S. Naval War College, the George H.W. Bush Chair of National Intelligence |
| Kathleen Vogel, PhD | Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University |
| Isiah Wilson III, PhD | Founder & CEO, Wilson W.I.S.E. Consulting LLC, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret) |
| Emily Neilson Winkler | Founder and CEO, VALOP Group |
