Staff

Jennifer Widner, Director

Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2004-5, Jennifer taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. Her current research focuses on the political economy of institutional reform, government accountability, and service delivery. She also remains interested in constitution writing, constitutional design, and fair dealing&mdash…

Jim Golder, Production Specialist

Jim Golder is a graduate of Rider University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He joined Princeton in 1998 working in the Woodrow Wilson School Finance Office. As ISS production specialist, he is responsible for logistical planning and data management associated with the oral history program, as…

Harrison Blackman, Editor

Harrison Blackman is a writer, journalist, and screenwriter, with experience in both newsrooms and writers’ rooms. A former Fulbright fellow to Cyprus, Harrison’s work has also been supported by the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Truman Library Institute. His writing has been featured in publications such as the Los Angeles Review…

Sarah Torian, Communications Specialist

Sarah Torian has been involved in issues of civil rights and social and economic justice professionally for the past fifteen years. For six years, she served as communications coordinator at the Southern Regional Council, writing and editing for the organization’s quarterly journal Southern Changes. Since 2002, she has worked…

Doug Hulette, Program Editor

Doug Hulette is a veteran of The Wall Street Journal copy desk, where he edited articles for the Asian and European editions as well as the U.S. publication. Besides newspapers, he also worked on wire services and websites for Dow Jones and other organizations. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse…

Research Associates

Matthew Lillehaugen, Research Associate

Matthew Lillehaugen is a recent MPA graduate from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. At Princeton, Matthew focused on issues related to stabilization, peacebuilding, governance, and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Before returning to graduate school, Matthew worked in Kabul, Afghanistan with the…

Gordon LaForge, Research Specialist

Gordon LaForge is a writer and global affairs analyst most recently with Predata, a predictive analytics firm specializing in geopolitical risk. He previously worked at the UN Mission to NATO and has conducted research in Brazil, Ghana, Czech Republic, and Indonesia, where he was a Fulbright scholar and journalist covering politics and…

Leon Schreiber, Research Specialist

Leon Schreiber has a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin. Originally from the Namaqualand region of South Africa, he went on to earn BA and MA degrees from Stellenbosch University. His research interests include social policy, institutions, and the comparative political economy of development. His dissertation compared…

Andile Cele, Research Associate

Andile Cele is a Research and Advocacy Consultant based in Durban, South Africa. For the past 8 years Andile has worked in the areas of policy, Parliamentary and budget analysis, working for both local and international organizations to strengthen fiscal transparency in government processes. In addition to her work with ISS, Andile works with…

Daniel Dennehy, Research Associate

Daniel Dennehy holds a M.A. in International Law and Economics from John Hopkins University (SAIS) and a B.A. in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. While his career started in U.S. state politics, he eventually entered humanitarian affairs and the international law of migration. Prior to joining ISS, he served as a…

Hilary Duff, Research Associate

Hilary Duff is a Canadian journalist and communications consultant who has worked with teams in more than 20 countries. Prior to joining ISS, Hilary authored an anthology of case studies for Harvard University examining the connections between human health and anthropogenic environmental change. Her interests lie at the intersection of…

Alexis Bernigaud, Research Associate

Alexis Bernigaud joined ISS from the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics, where he worked as a Research Assistant on a project analyzing the Tanzanian health and social protection systems from a gender perspective. Prior to that, he worked for the French High Authority for Transparency in Public Life as an…