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Siriana Kvalvik Nair is a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State.  Prior to her assignment as the United States Consul General in Perth, Australia, she served as the Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission in Brasilia, Brazil, advancing bilateral geopolitical objectives during a period of transformation in Brazil’s foreign policy.  In 2021, she was nominated for the State Department Director General’s Award for Impact and Originality in Reporting.  Prior to Brazil, Ms. Nair served as Acting Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission in Jakarta, Indonesia, overseeing U.S. engagement in a broad range of areas, including democracy and human rights, military and security cooperation, and the South China Sea.

As the Director of the United States’ International Narcotics and Law Enforcement regional office for North Africa in Rabat, Morocco, Ms. Nair established and managed multi-million dollar programs in law enforcement, prison reform, and border security, which continue to deliver benefits to the U.S.-Morocco partnership.  Her other assignments with the Department of State include New Delhi, India; Manila, Philippines; and Washington, D.C., where she worked in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs and in the State Department’s Human Resources Bureau.  Ms. Nair has a Master’s degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and degrees in Political Science and Biology from Wellesley College.  She is married to Jai Nair, a fellow Foreign Service Officer, and they have four children.

Dr. Jonathan Stock founded and runs the National Innovation Center (NIC). The Center’s goal is to identify national scientific challenges, and to pursue them with technology partners using scarce federal dollars to best serve the public.  NIC partners with industry, non-governmental organizations, other Federal Agencies and academia to improve the Nation’s ability to map, monitor and forecast its resources and hazards. Stock holds degrees from University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Washington, and University of California, Berkeley. The Center is located at the U.S. Geological Survey in Moffett Field, California, USA.

Roger Hunter  is currently the Program Manager for the Small Spacecraft Technology Program,  (SSTP).  Roger began his professional career in the Air Force. He attended the Squadron Officer School at the Air Command and Staff College. He also received a BS Degree in Mathematics at the University of Georgia, an MS in Space Operations from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology and an MA in Airpower Studies from the Air University Air Command and Staff College. He was a member the United States Air Force from October 1978 until December of 2000. After retiring form the Air Force he spent a few years in Private industry including a position as Site Manager for Boeing in Colorado Springs. He found his way to NASA Ames in 2008. He was the Project Manager for Kepler – A Search for Habitable Planets. When asked about why he left Boeing and returned to public service to manage the Kepler Project he stated, “How many times in one’s life do you get a chance to work on something that can make history […] NO one can say no to that.”

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Time: 6:00pm- 8:00pm

Venue: 15/ 125 St Georges Terrace, PwC Perth

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