Meet Our Team
ISG is comprised of a diverse leadership, faculty, and staff team with strong professional, academic, military, and government backgrounds. Scroll below to learn a little more about us, and head to the Working With Us section of this site for information on how to get involved.

Ian Wexler
Director
Institute for Security Governance
- Ethics & Leadership
- Security Sector Reform
- Change Management

Angela Eccles
Deputy Director
Institute for Security Governance
- Budgeting & Resource Management
- Financial Management
- Ethics & Leadership
- Interagency Coordination

Wade Evans
Senior Principal
Regional Advising
- Security & Defense Policy & Strategy
- Ethics & Leadership
- Interagency Coordination
- Combating Terrorism & Violent Extremism
- Security Cooperation Planning

Joel Kleehammer
Acting Senior Principal
Institute Operations
Principal for Program Support
Institute Operations
- Institute Operations
- Ethics & Leadership
- Security & Defense Policy & Strategy
- Interagency Coordination

Scott Moreland
Senior Principal
Practice & Capability
- Security & Defense Planning
- Interagency Coordination
- Emergency Preparedness
- Civil-Military Relations
- Civil Preparedness Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Response

Eva Lanot
Principal for Peace and Security
Practice & Capability
- Human Security
- Irregular Migration and Forced Displacement
- Armed Non-State Actors and Acutely Vulnerable Populations
- Andragogy, Human-Centered Design, and Competency-Based Training

Kathleen Peggar
Principal for Acquisition & Logistics
Practice & Capability
- International Negotiations
- Defense Acquisition
- Ethics & Leadership
- Europe
- Latin America

Michael Knutson
Principal for the Western Hemisphere and Africa
Regional Advising
- Security & Defense Policy & Strategy
- Security Cooperation
- Security & Defense Planning
- Intelligence in Security
- Latin America