Dr. Aaron Presnall is Founder and President of the Jefferson Institute, a non-partisan, not-for-profit corporation. Dr. Presnall has 25 years of experience leading transformational efforts in security sector reform across Europe.  Before joining the Jefferson Institute, he served with the EastWest Institute for seven years in Prague, then in Belgrade for three years as EastWest’s Regional Director of Southeast Europe. He is Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation project in the Arctic Social Sciences Program, and Principal Investigator on a Department of Defense Readiness R&D project to mature the operational integration of distance learning in mission rehearsals.