Clifford Brown, President, is an attorney and retired Senior U.S. Foreign Service Officer with over 27 years with USAID, having served as Mission Director, Country Representative, and Regional Legal advisor in eight overseas postings. In addition to having served in Africa and Central Asia, he lived in various Spanish-speaking countries in both Central and South America for a total of over 16 years, and has worked on the entire range of governance-related issues, including basic civil society support, municipal and legislative strengthening, elections support, anti-corruption, and justice reform. He is a former partner of Ervin, Cohen & Jessup in Beverly Hills, California where he practiced commercial law for eleven years. He is a graduate of UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California, and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review in 1975-76.
Bryan Lowe, Vice President, retired in May 2019 from a 35-year career working intelligence and diplomatic issues for the U.S. Government, with considerable experience overseas as a senior manager on intelligence issues. He spent almost 12 years in various countries in Africa, a year each in the conflict zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, and over a dozen years in the Caribbean (Haiti) and South America. As a senior intelligence manager overseas he excelled at working with foreign governments allied with the U.S. in the pursuit of shared policy objectives. He is a graduate of Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina and he started his career with the government just months after obtaining his Bachelors degree specializing in History. He speaks excellent Spanish and conversational French.
Luis Felipe Sanchez, Senior Program Officer and Community Specialist, is an attorney at law in Peru and a graduate from San Marcos' School of Law and Political Science (1996). Dr. Sanchez has also pursued a series of post-degree studies at Peru's Center of Advanced National Studies (CAEN) and other entities. During his practice he has also served as defense attorney for state entities.
Jeff Brown, Chief Technology Officer, is a software developer, economist and statistician. He built and maintains a model of the social effects of Colombia's value-added tax for the Observatorio Fiscal at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. Prior to that, he built a model that forecasts statewide foreclosure rates for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office in Washington D.C. He also worked an analyst for Precision Health Economics in Los Angeles, which publishes studies of medicine and public policy in peer-reviewed health and economics journals. Jeff is the author of Digraphs with Text, an open-source natural-language toolkit, and a co-author of Semantic Synchrony, a personal knowledge graph database. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from Michigan State University.
