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Prior to his service in the White House, Douglas worked on the US State Department Policy Planning Staff and held diplomatic appointments in Singapore and Beijing. He also worked as a senior analyst and deputy national intelligence officer for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). After leaving government, he joined JPMorgan Chase International as its Vice Chairman from 2006 to 2008. A Vietnam war veteran (he served as a naval officer during the war), he studied Japanese in Tokyo after graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chinese Studies and Asian History from Brown University and a PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. Douglas has written and spoken extensively on US policy in Asia and Asian affairs, his articles and interviews being published and broadcast by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, the National Interest, Korea Times, the Washington Times, Far Eastern Economic Review, RIA Novosti, World Politics Review, C-SPAN, BBC, PBS and CCTV. He has also published numerous commentaries and policy papers through the Washington DC-based think tank, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he directed its Asia Programme and is now a Distinguished Fellow. 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He received a scholarship from the Indian Government for a Master’s in Public Policy to study at Maxwell, Syracuse. He was subsequently. awarded a PhD in Economics. Madhukar worked as Secretary in the Ministry of Public Enterprises and Heavy Industries for several years. He focused on Public Policy in US and China while working with experts on economic growth, public sector management, infrastructure, corporate finance and development at Harvard, MIT, Syracuse, Maryland, Cornell and Fletcher School. Madhukar has won many national awards in India and international universities have hosted him as a visiting faculty and scholar, including BITS where he has been adjunct faculty for more than 20 years. He has presented professional papers in nearly three dozen countries. He has worked with the national government in New Delhi and the regional governments of Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. He has also been Team Leader in the United Nations Development Program, consultant to the Asian Development Bank and Sri Lankan government, non-profit sector, cooperative sector, as Managing Director in State Road Transport Corporation and State Cooperative Dairy Federation, as Principal Secretary Higher Education and Transport Departments and also, as Vice Chancellor of University of Rajasthan and Rajasthan Agriculture University. He coordinated the Bhuj Earthquake for the UN and the Gurjar agitation for the Rajasthan government. Madhukar has spent about fifteen years as a practitioner as Divisional Commissioner in 4 Divisions, District Magistrate in 3 districts and Sub Divisional Magistrate in two places. His wife Kiran Soni Gupta is also in the same batch. She is also an accomplished painter. He is an instrument of change in India.” profile=”/advisory-board/madhukar-gupta/”][tm_team_member social_networks=”%5B%7B%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22fa%20fa-adjust%22%2C%22icon_ion%22%3A%22ion-alert%22%2C%22icon_themify%22%3A%22ti-arrow-up%22%2C%22icon_pe7stroke%22%3A%22pe-7s-album%22%2C%22icon_flat%22%3A%22flaticon-heartbeat%22%7D%5D” photo=”4727″ name=”Barry McManus” desc=”After completion of a distinguished career with the Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency, Dr. McManus became recognized as a top-tier professional in the use of non-coercive interrogation,” profile=”/advisory-board/barry-mcmanus/”][tm_team_member social_networks=”%5B%7B%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22fa%20fa-adjust%22%2C%22icon_ion%22%3A%22ion-alert%22%2C%22icon_themify%22%3A%22ti-arrow-up%22%2C%22icon_pe7stroke%22%3A%22pe-7s-album%22%2C%22icon_flat%22%3A%22flaticon-heartbeat%22%7D%5D” photo=”4750″ name=”Francis Xavier” desc=”Francis Xavier, one of Asia’s top litigators, has joined the Advisory Board of Pereira International. 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