Jonathan Spalter, Chairman and CEO 

Before creating the independent investment research firm Public Insight, LP, Spalter served in the Clinton Administration where he was confirmed by the US Senate to serve as Associate Director of the US Information Agency, and CIO. He also served in the White House as a Director on the National Security Council staff, and as chief international affairs spokesman for Vice President Al Gore. In the private sector, Spalter has been CEO of Snocap, founded by the creators of Napster; CEO of Vivendi Universal’s health publishing subsidiary, Atmedica Worldwide, and as Vivendi Universal’s group Senior Vice President for global public policy. Spalter was an analyst at Multinational Strategies Inc., the New York investment and political risk advisory firm. He was graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University, and received the M. Phil from Cambridge University, where he focused on international economics and political risk analysis. A frequent commentator and author on financial markets and public policy, he is a member and former Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. jonathan.spalter@public-insight.com

Governor Jim Hodges, Vice Chairman

Governor Hodges served as Governor of South Carolina from 1999 – 2003. He recently served as National Co-Chairman of the Obama-Biden Presidential Campaign. He is a partner with McGuireWoods LLP and a senior advisor with McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. He advises clients on energy, health care, education, economic development, and other issues, dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C. Since 1993, he has been the CEO of Hodges Consulting, a business, government relations, and economic development consulting firm. He received his J.D. and B.S. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Dr. Paul M. Sacks, Managing Director, New York

Dr. Sacks takes on the new role of Managing Director, overseeing the activities of our New York office. He has for twenty years been President of Multinational Strategies, Inc. (MNS), a financial advisory firm assisting asset management companies and sovereign clients from emerging markets in their privatization and capital markets activities. Prior to joining MNS, Dr. Sacks worked at Chase Manhattan Bank where he helped establish their commercial sovereign risk subsidiary. He has served as foreign investment advisor to the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, in addition to several other sovereign mandates. Dr. Sacks holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. from the University of Rochester. From 1975-1979 he served as Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Over the past decade Dr. Sacks also served as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and also serves on Public Insight’s National Advisory Board. paul.sacks@public-insight.com

Nina Horne, Research and Client Services Manager

Nina has an extensive policy analysis background, including serving as an Invited Expert to the U.S. Delegation to the OECD's Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials where Nina has coordinated the acceleration of nanorisk assessment among scientists in 23 nations. With the United Nations Economic Programme ICLEI, Nina developed carbon efficiency models used by hundreds of U.S. cities to reduce their carbon footprint, which earned her membership in the Clinton Global Initiative University. Nina lectures frequently on nanotechnology, risk management practices, innovation, and commercialization. Nina's work in policy follows a career as an academic publisher in advanced biology and earth sciences for the two largest global educational publishers, where she commercialized over a hundred successful products. Nina earned her Masters degree of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy of the University of California-Berkeley, with an emphasis on science and technology policy and security. Nina is also a City Commissioner in Oakland, CA.