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Ms. Gabrielle Bowdoin Mazurek, Senior Research Associate

Ms. Mazurek joined the Potomac Institute in July 2004 as a Senior Research Associate in the Research and Analysis Division. In this role she has examined communications interoperability issues for interagency emergency response, provided research and task management on studies of human information processing and microelectronics obsolescence, and organized a lecture series on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closing round. Since early 2005, Ms. Mazurek has supported the U.S. Marine Corps’ Quadrennial Defense Review team.

Ms. Mazurek brings to Potomac her experience in security and military affairs and business. As a Research Associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, she coauthored the report Beyond Unilateral Economic Sanctions: Better Alternatives for U.S. Foreign Policy and examined American military culture, and emerging threats to the US from WMD terrorism and U.S. preparedness. While a researcher with the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, her work addressed mass violence, conflict intervention and peacekeeping. Most recently, Ms. Mazurek worked at Washington Information Group, a business research firm providing strategy and market analysis to Fortune 500 companies, where she developed expertise in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries.

Ms. Mazurek earned a Master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in European Politics and History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.