ANGLOSPHERE SOCIETY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of the White House Writers Group
Clark Judge is managing director of the White House Writers Group, a policy and communications consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He served in the Reagan Administration in capacities related to government management, urban policy, and international economic policy before becoming a speechwriter and special assistant for Vice President Bush and President Reagan.
James MacGuire was born in New York and educated at Johns Hopkins and Cambridge. For many years he worked in publishing and television at such companies as Time Inc., Macmillan, The Health Network, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In the last decade he has helped lead capital campaigns at Portsmouth Abbey School, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, the Archdiocese of New York, and the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Away from work, MacGuire's writing has been published in many national publications, and he is the author or co-author of ten books, the most recent of which is Real Lace Revisited. He chairs the Man O' War Project (www.mowproject.org), serves on the development committee of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is a member of the International Lawn Tennis Club.
Lee Cohen, NY Director of the Anglosphere Society is a foreign policy analyst and editorial writer specializing in the Anglo- American relationship. For years he advised the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee as Professional Staff with jurisdiction for Western Europe. He founded the thriving House US-UK Caucus to educate congress people, the media and public on the Special Relationship.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of Northwestern University where he received his BA in French and Political Science; and of McGill University in Montreal where he received his MBA in Marketing and International Management.
H. E. Vicki Downey, DGCHS, is a Lieutenant of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, overseeing the Eastern part of the United States. Having been a member of the Order since 2004 she was appointed to the Board of Councilors in 2011 and appointed Lieutenant in January 2016. Born and educated in the UK, Vicki moved to New York in 1999. Initially she was responsible for the immigration and importation department of a large Italian shoe company before transferring to a small independent Immigration Law firm in 2002.
In 2006, she was able to leave the corporate world to concentrate on her charitable endeavors. Initially, she concentrated on The Daughters of the British Empire (DBE), serving four years as New York State President and then it's National President for an additional three years. In 2012, she was asked to become the Chief of Staff of the Mountbatten Institute, heading up its North American Operation. Vicki still remains President of her own small logistics company which specializes in helping nonprofit organizations. She still serves as an Honorary National Vice President for the DBE, is a World Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Program and is on the Boards of The Anglosphere Society, The Allied Forces Foundation and the Victoria Home.
Job Titles:
- Executive Managing Director
Mitchell Silber is the Executive Managing Director at K2 Intelligence for Intelligence and Analytic Solutions.
Prior to this, Mitch was the Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) where he supervised the Intelligence Division's entire portfolio of ongoing terrorism-related investigations. He also built and managed both the Analytic and Cyber Intelligence Units.
Mitch has presented on behalf of the NYPD at the White House, National Security Council, CIA, FBI, and National Counter Terrorism Center and testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was a co-author of the 2007 NYPD report: Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat and is also the author of The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West, published in 2012 by University of Pennsylvania Press.
At K2 Intelligence, he is responsible for building and managing the Data Analytics practice. This includes identifying and partnering with venture stage companies that are creating cutting edge analytics and cyber security capabilities, designing new uses for them in the business intelligence and investigations arena and creating new business practice areas around them. Mitch also leads K2's strategic acquisition and investment efforts and is regularly meeting and assessing new technology/companies.
He is a co-author of the soon to be published, Cyberwarfare and the Law (Fall 2014). He is also a visiting lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where he teaches a course on Modern Urban Counterterrorism. In addition, he serves on the Dean's Advisory Board at SIPA and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Arbana Xharra is an Albanian investigative journalist from Kosovo, an expert on Islamic radicalization and the rise of Islamic State ideology in Western countries. She has authored a series of investigative reports since 2012 on religious extremists and Turkey's Islamic agenda operating in the Balkans.
By evaluating Islamic extremists operating in Kosovo, she discovered links with terrorist organizations. Uncovering operational and financial links, Xharra was able to assist the government in efforts to address the problem, but the reports caused her to receive death threats and public attacks on her reputation.
Noel has worked for financial services firms in London and New York, where he currently works for Brown Brothers Harriman. He is an active alumnus of Trinity College, Oxford and The Hotchkiss School. He lectures about Margaret Thatcher and leadership to academic, social and business groups. Born in England, he has British and American nationality.
Rosemary P. Sullivan started her own management consulting business in 1996 which provides financial and operational services to communications and non profit clients. She acts as General Manager for TAS. Other clients include: Family Security Matters, Chief Executive Magazine, Remedy Health Media and GVM Media Services.