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Our Team

The Frederick S. Pardee Institute for International Futures team includes its core teaching faculty, full-time staff and researchers, and student research aides. 
Our team also includes alumni and research affiliates who contribute to the work of expanding and applying the International Futures (IFs) tool.

Use this page to meet the people and teams who develop Pardee’s tools, conduct research and analysis, support operations, and help communicate our work to academic, policy, student, and partner communities.

Core team

Pardee’s core team leads the Institute’s research, model development, data operations, project management, teaching, communications, business operations, and partner engagement.

Collin Meisel

Associate Director of Geopolitical Analysis
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Deva Sahadevan

Research Associate
Pardee Institute
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Divya Bandi

System Modeler/Developer
Pardee Institute
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Jonathan David Moyer

Associate Professor
Director, Pardee Institute
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Keith M. Gehring

Teaching Associate Professor
Undergraduate Degree Director, International Studies
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Kylie McKee

Project Manager & Research Associate
Pardee Institute
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Mohammod Irfan

Pam Hoberman

Director of Operations
Pardee Institute
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Peter Stansbery

Grants and Business Manager
Pardee Institute
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Samantha Kunz

Senior Research Associate
Pardee Institute
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Taylor Hanna

Associate Director of Development Analysis
Pardee Institute
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Yutang Xiong

Lead Data Operations Manager
Pardee Institute
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Jose Solorzano Arevalo

Lead System Developer

Pardee Fellows

Pardee Fellows contribute specialized research, analysis, and applied expertise to projects across the Institute’s development, geopolitical, and modeling work.

Julia Frangul

Pardee Fellow

Simon Kyeremeh

Pardee Fellow

Helen Lee

Pardee Fellow

Victoria Pepera

Pardee Fellow

Christopher Gavin

Pardee Fellow

Ethan Sullivan

Pardee Fellow

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Pardee students

Students are part of Pardee’s research and communications workforce. They help collect, code, clean, and vet data; support scenario analysis and model interpretation; contribute to reports, publications, and partner-facing research; and help communicate Pardee’s work through articles, newsletters, events, web content, and digital media.

Through this work, students build practical skills in research, data, modeling, writing, project coordination, feedback, and public communication. They also help sustain the open datasets, tools, analysis, and outreach that make Pardee’s work accessible to researchers, students, policymakers, and partners.

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Help support a global community working toward a more knowable future

Pardee’s open tools, research, and training resources support students, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around the world. Your gift helps keep that work accessible and strengthens the public research infrastructure behind it.

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