Dean's Advisory Council

Matthew C. (Mac) Bernstein

Bernstein is a partner at DLA Piper in Washington D.C. where he focuses his practice on developing and directing government affairs strategies in complex policy matters.

Dan Coats

Senator Coats is a Distinguished Scholar at the Hamilton Lugar School. He served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence.

James F. Collins

Ambassador Collins is a former US Ambassador to the Russian Federation and a senior fellow and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Susan Elliott

Ambassador Elliott is President and CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. She held a variety of leadership positions at the US Department of State during her 27-year diplomatic career.

Nathan Feltman

Feltman is president and CEO of IBJ Media, parent of Indianapolis Business Journal and The Indiana Lawyer.

Bruce Hack

Bruce Hack is an executive, advisor and investor in the entertainment business, previously Chairman of Technicolor, Vice Chairman of Activision Blizzard, CEO of Vivendi Games, Vice Chairman of the Universal Music Group, and CFO of Universal Studios. Early in career, he was a trade negotiator at the US Treasury.

Lee Hamilton

Congressman Hamilton is a Distinguished Scholar at the Hamilton Lugar School and one of the nation’s foremost experts on Congress and representative democracy.

Marie Harf

Harf is a national security communications and policy strategist who has varied experience in the U.S. federal government, higher education, media, and politics.

Adam Hitchcock

Adam Hitchcock is an investor and advisor whose career has spanned finance and politics. He is the owner of Great Lakes Global Holdings, a holding company that develops professional services firms and specialty finance companies.

Erin Huntington

Huntington is Vice President of International Corporate Affairs and Global Pricing, Reimbursement and Access (GPRA) for Eli Lilly and Company, where she is responsible for corporate affairs and product market access for all markets outside the U.S., and PRA standards and capability development worldwide.

Robert N. Johnson

Robert N. Johnson has coordinated a career in the corporate world with public service for over three decades. Today, he serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife & Culture. And once served as the Chairperson of the IU Alumni Association’s Board and Managers (representing over 750,000 alumni worldwide for all campuses).

Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale

Lamb-Hale is Vice President and General Counsel for Cummins Inc, where she oversees the power technology company’s legal matters and its global team of attorneys, paralegals, and other professionals.

Blair Milo

Blair Milo is the Director of the Center for Talent & Opportunity at Sagamore Institute. Previously, she was Indiana's first Secretary for Career Connections and Talent and served on the Governor's Workforce Cabinet, a body dedicated to shaping education and training in the 21st Century workforce.

Katherine Ntiamoah

Ntiamoah is a Deputy Spokesperson for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in the Office of Multilateral Coordination and External Relations at the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

Victor Eugene "Gene" Renuart

General Renuart's Air Force career culminated as Commander for NORAD and US Northern Command; he now runs The Renuart Group, LLC, a defense, homeland security, energy, project management, and leadership consulting firm.

Richard Woosnam

Woosnam is the President of Innovest Group, Inc and serves in leadership positions at Bridges Learning Systems, Inc., Command Equity Group LLC, and Plum Capital LLC.