Our Crew
Dr. John Curtis Perry sits on the Board and serves as President of the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He also serves as Director of the Maritime Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where he has held the Henry Willard Denison Chair since 1981. For 14 years, he served as Director of Fletcher's North Pacific Program, which annually brought students and faculty together for summer seminars in various North Pacific nations. Dr. Perry now teaches Maritime History and Contemporary Issues in Maritime Affairs at the Fletcher School. He is also a Senior Advisor at Rhumb Line LLC. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies and a M.A. in Foreign Area Studies from Yale University and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He has published five books and numerous articles, served as a consultant to the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan Export Trade Promotion Organization (JETRO), lectured at many universities at home and abroad, frequently appeared on TV and radio, and contributed to newspapers and journals in the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Russia and elsewhere. He recently published articles on maritime topics in the New York Times, Straits Times (Singapore), Christian Science Monitor, and Baltimore Sun, among other papers. In 1991, he received a Japanese imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, for "extraordinary contributions to American-Japanese relations."
Dr. Scott G. Borgerson sits on the Board and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He also serves as the Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow at the Fletcher School's Maritime Studies Program, and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy. Dr. Borgerson is also a Principal of Rhumb Line LLC. Before co-founding Rhumb Line, he served as Director of the U.S. Coast Guard's Institute for Leadership and taught maritime and port security courses at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. During a decade on active duty, he contributed to Coast Guard strategic planning and served several tours at sea, holding positions as navigator aboard the Cutter Dallas and commanding officer of the Patrol Boat Point Sal. Dr. Borgerson's op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor, among other papers, and his essays have appeared in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs. Dr. Borgerson is also a regular guest on major television and radio programs speaking on a wide range of foreign policy, homeland security, and maritime topics. He received a B.S. with high honors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.A.L.D. and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School. He is a term member of the CFR and a delegate to the US-Japan Leadership Program. He also holds a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer Masters License.
Dr. Rockford Weitz sits on the Board and serves as Treasurer and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He is also as a Principal of Rhumb Line LLC, a Fellow at the Fletcher School's Maritime Studies Program, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Rhode Island Ports and Harbors Inventory Project, a research initiative sponsored by the Rhode Island planning department. Dr. Weitz has taught courses on Contemporary Maritime Affairs at the Fletcher School. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School, and a B.A. in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. He has published articles on maritime topics in the New York Times, Straits Times (Singapore), Christian Science Monitor, and Baltimore Sun,among other papers, and has been interviewed on maritime matters by the Journal of Commerce, National Public Radio, Straits Times (Singapore), and Harper's Magazine, among others. His Ph.D. dissertation examined the role of Lloyd's of London as a transnational actor, using maritime security cooperation along the Malacca Straits as a primary case study. Before co-founding Rhumb Line, he practiced law at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. He also worked at the U.S. Trade Representative and Securities America, Inc. He is member of the Washington State Bar Association and a fellow in the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program.
Edward C. Anthes-Washburn serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He also works at the Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Rhode Island Ports and Harbors Inventory Project, a research initiative sponsored by the Rhode Island planning department. He has a city planning background, and has a long-standing interest in maritime studies and the effects of shipping on municipal and regional economies. He received a B.S. in Urban Studies from the College of Architecture Art and Planning at Cornell University. Prior to his work for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he was hired by the New Orleans Planning Initiative to help create a comprehensive, resident-driven plan to rebuild the Upper and Lower 9th Ward.
Benjamin Mazzotta serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He holds a M.A.L.D. in International Political Economy and Development Economics from the Fletcher School, with a certificate in International Development and Economic Analysis. He is Ph.D. candidate, studying risk management for intergovernmental organizations through the case study of the World Food Program's drought insurance. He also serves as Research Director for Economic Relationships at the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a non-profit research institute dedicated to the analysis of cyber risk in national critical infrastructure, with a focus on the private sector. At the Environmental League of Massachusetts, he studied toxic release reporting at the MA Department of Environmental Protection. He has given guest lectures on chaos theory and network analysis at the Fletcher School, and on risk management at Harvard Extension School. He is an alumnus of the Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, and the Peace Corps.
Jonathan Reiber serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He also works as a geopolitical risk and international security analyst for clients in New York and Washington, D.C. In maritime affairs, he is especially interested in the strategic and historical aspects of trade in the Indian Ocean between Africa, the Middle East, and India. Previously, Jonathan served as a policy advisor at the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan and held a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in South Africa, Italy, India, Turkey and Cyprus. He has advised organizations and companies on political and social issues in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In addition to his work in policy and analysis, Jonathan spent two years in London as a commissioning editor in religion and international affairs publishing. He is a 2001 graduate of Middlebury College, where he majored in religion, and a 2007 graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.