Speaker biographies

Colonel John Agoglia is the director of the U.S. Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He joined PKSOI in the summer of 2004 after having served three years at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), where he was involved in developing CENTCOM’s plans for Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism. He was part of the initial planning group that initiated the campaign plan for Iraq, and accompanied Ambassador L. Paul Bremer into Baghdad in May 2003 as his CENTCOM liaison officer. In Iraq, he worked the integration of the planning efforts between the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. military, facilitated the hand-off of Iraqi police training from the CPA to CJTF-7, and provided the initial engagement strategy for senior military commanders with the newly appointed interim Iraqi government leaders in the spring of 2004.

David Bayley is a distinguished professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. He was dean of the School of Criminal Justice from 1995 to 1999. A specialist in international criminal justice with particular interest in policing, he has done extensive research in India, Japan, Australia, Canada, Bosnia, Britain, Singapore, and the United States. His work has focused on police reform, accountability, foreign assistance to police agencies, and crime-prevention strategies. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. government and the United Nations on police reform in Bosnia. He is currently a member of the international oversight commission for the reform of the police of Northern Ireland, and has recently written the United Nations’ program for community policing in the rebuilding and reform of police in peacekeeping operations. His most recent book is Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police Abroad (Oxford University Press, 2006), the culmination of a four-year project examining the lessons-to-be-learned about police development assistance under both bilateral and multilateral auspices. He previously published two other books with Oxford, What Works in Policing (1998) and Police for the Future (1994). In 2001 he published two monographs for the U.S. National Institute of Justice, The New Structure of Policing, with Clifford Shearing, and Democratizing the Police Abroad: What to Do and How to Do It. Other major publications include Forces of Order: Policing Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1976, 1991) and Patterns of Policing: A Comparative International Analysis (Rutgers University Press, 1985). He coauthored with Jerome H. Skolnick The New Blue Line: Police Innovation in Six American Cities (The Free Press, 1986), and Community Policing: Issues and Practices around the World (National Institute of Justice, 1988). He contributed a chapter entitled “The Organization of the Police in English-Speaking Countries” to Modern Policing (University of Chicago Press, 1992),  He also wrote Police and Political Development in India (Princeton University Press, 1969) and “The Police and Political Development in Europe” in Charles The Formation of National States in Western Europe, edited by Charles Tilly (Princeton University Press, 1975).

Ali Jalali served as interior minister of Afghanistan from January 2003 to September 2005. He is currently a distinguished professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies  and a researcher at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. As interior minister of Afghanistan, he created a trained force of 50,000 Afghan National Police and 12,000 Border Police to work effectively in counternarcotics, counterterrorism, and criminal investigation to fight against organized crime and illegal border crossings. He successfully led the countrywide operations to protect the constitutional grand assembly (Loya Jirga) in 2003, the nationwide voters’ registration drive and landmark 2004 presidential election, and the parliamentary elections in 2005. He also implemented a nationwide program under the Afghanistan Stabilization Program to extend the central government’s authority to all thirty-four provinces and 365 districts in the country. His efforts removed warlord-governors, incompetent provincial administrators, corrupt officials, and ineffective police chiefs to ensure basic security and good governance for all of Afghanistan. He was chairman of the executive steering committee of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, whose members include high-ranking Afghan government officials, the commanders of the U.S.-led coalition forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the head of the United Nations assistance mission, ambassadors from donor countries, and representatives of international organizations. Prior to assuming his post as interior minister, Mr. Jalali was the director of the Afghanistan National Radio Network Initiative and chief of the Pashto service at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. As a journalist, he traveled extensively while covering the war in Afghanistan (1982–1993) and the former Soviet Central Asia (1993–2000). His work includes hundreds of analytical reports for Voice of America on political, economic, and social developments in the region. He is a frequent commentator on Afghan issues for major U.S. and European television and radio networks. He is a published writer in three languages (English, Pashto, Dari/Farsi) and the author of numerous books and articles on political, military, and security issues, as well as Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Iran, and central Asia. A former colonel in the Afghan Army, he served as a top military planner with the Afghan resistance following the Soviet invasion in 1979.

Dick Mayer is currently the managing director of the Emergence Group, an international criminal justice consulting organization based in Washington, D.C. Formerly he served as senior police advisor in the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the U.S. State Department, and as deputy director of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program at the U.S. Justice Department, where he was instrumental in planning and implementing the Iraq Criminal Justice System Development Program from January 2003 through March 2006. In the Justice Department, he also performed assessments of foreign police agencies, and developed, implemented, and managed police development programs in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Indonesia, and East Timor, among others. Mr. Mayer began his law enforcement career as a police officer with the Montgomery County, Maryland, police department in 1967. He subsequently served as chief of police in Brunswick, Maine; assistant director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; and lecturer at the FBI National Academy. He is an attorney admitted to practice law before the courts of the state of Maryland and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Vance Serchuk is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at AEI, where he studies international organizations and the overlap between U.S. strategic interests and development policy. Previously he was a research associate at AEI, coordinating its defense and security policy program. He has also worked as a consultant for the Project for the New American Century and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Before joining AEI, Mr. Serchuk was a Fulbright scholar in the Russian Federation. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Sun, The Weekly Standard, The Forward, and other publications.

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