Who We Are
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Vishal Kumar
Vishal Kumar is the director of the Global Leadership Center (GLC). He is a Finance and BHP senior with minors in Government and Accounting. Vishal formerly ran the Central Texas Model UN and has traveled to The Hague with CTMUN. Vishal goes to New York City every year to help organize and run a Model UN conference in the UN building and gets to take in Ban Ki Mun's thoughts at the opening ceremony. He is the former director of ABSA-the university's only student-run investment team and was an intern at Microsoft during the summer of 2009. Vishal is also an avid soccer fan and will of course be following the U.S. national team in the 2010 World Cup.
Alex Ecenia
Alex Ecenia is the associate director of the Global Organizations Council (GO-C). She is a Government junior with an interest in international development. Alex traveled to Uganda to install solar panels in remote villages and on the same trip floated down the Nile. On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic she taught English in an orphanage and visited the Haitian-Dominican border. Alex is also a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and a runner. She enjoys being involved in the GO-C because she gets to meet the leaders of global organizations on campus.
Whitney Bosworth
Whitney Bosworth is the Associate Director of Act Local, Think Global (ALTG). She is a History and Government senior and a participant in the International Studies strand of the Bridging Disciplines Program with a focus on human rights. She spends her free time skydiving, reading, running and practicing yoga. Her research interests include her current thesis topic: the International Committee of the Red Cross, armed conflict, and modern international history. After graduation, Whitney plans to pursue a Master of the Arts in Teaching in order to teach high school social studies.
Julieta Cuéllar
Julieta Cuéllar is Associate Director of the International Opportunities Network (ION). She is a Plan II and International Relations sophomore and Eastern European Studies minor. While not studying for Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Russian, or brushing up on her French, Julieta enjoys reading Harper's Magazine or watching films of (nearly) every genre. Her research interests include the political climate of the former Yugoslav republics and immigration in Western Europe. This interest recently took her to Paris to interview everyone from political activists to souvenir salesmen from Cape Verde on immigration and life in France.
Leah Gilman
Leah Gilman is Associate Director of Public Relations (PR). She is double majoring in Arabic and Government. Leah is also a member and current co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and devotes much of her free time to studying the conflicts in the Middle East and their relationship with the United States. When not swamped with studying or reading the news, she can almost always be found on the streets of Austin riding her bike or doing as much adventuring, spelunking, and traveling as possible. Her involvement in the GLC comes from her desire to support and enhance the community of students on the UT campus who wish to make better the issues abroad.
Matt Lamb
Matt Lamb is Associate Director of the Global Opportunities Resource Center (GORC). He is a Government and History senior. Matt's research has mostly focused on party polarization and voting in the United States though he's burgeoning interest in Latin American history also took him to Saltillo, Mexico to study the political culture during the recent Calderon-Lopez Obrador election. Matt found his way to the GLC via FaceAIDS where he was the former logistics coordinator. When not on campus, Matt enjoys flying Cessna airplanes.
Siddharth Jawahar
Siddharth Jawahar is the Director of the Global Leadership Fund (GLF). Currently a senior, his academic interests include political science, international markets and foreign affairs. Professionally, he is also studying astrophysics and just completed an assignment with NASA this past summer. He worked in Private Equity for Morgan Stanley in Singapore last summer focusing on principal (core and opportunistic) investments and in the bank's Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Hong Kong the summer before that, focusing on deal execution across Asia. Prior to that, he worked for JP Morgan in New York in their Investment Bank focusing on Credit. Siddharth was also a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University where he worked with Dr. John Nash, Jr. on 'competitive behavior analysis'. At UT, he is President Emeritus of the University Investors Association, President of the Investment Banking Association and Founder/Chair of the Texas Investment Conference.
Vishal Kumar is the director of the Global Leadership Center (GLC). He is a Finance and BHP senior with minors in Government and Accounting. Vishal formerly ran the Central Texas Model UN and has traveled to The Hague with CTMUN. Vishal goes to New York City every year to help organize and run a Model UN conference in the UN building and gets to take in Ban Ki Mun's thoughts at the opening ceremony. He is the former director of ABSA-the university's only student-run investment team and was an intern at Microsoft during the summer of 2009. Vishal is also an avid soccer fan and will of course be following the U.S. national team in the 2010 World Cup.
Alex Ecenia is the associate director of the Global Organizations Council (GO-C). She is a Government junior with an interest in international development. Alex traveled to Uganda to install solar panels in remote villages and on the same trip floated down the Nile. On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic she taught English in an orphanage and visited the Haitian-Dominican border. Alex is also a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and a runner. She enjoys being involved in the GO-C because she gets to meet the leaders of global organizations on campus.
Whitney Bosworth is the Associate Director of Act Local, Think Global (ALTG). She is a History and Government senior and a participant in the International Studies strand of the Bridging Disciplines Program with a focus on human rights. She spends her free time skydiving, reading, running and practicing yoga. Her research interests include her current thesis topic: the International Committee of the Red Cross, armed conflict, and modern international history. After graduation, Whitney plans to pursue a Master of the Arts in Teaching in order to teach high school social studies.
Leah Gilman is Associate Director of Public Relations (PR). She is double majoring in Arabic and Government. Leah is also a member and current co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and devotes much of her free time to studying the conflicts in the Middle East and their relationship with the United States. When not swamped with studying or reading the news, she can almost always be found on the streets of Austin riding her bike or doing as much adventuring, spelunking, and traveling as possible. Her involvement in the GLC comes from her desire to support and enhance the community of students on the UT campus who wish to make better the issues abroad.
Siddharth Jawahar is the Director of the Global Leadership Fund (GLF). Currently a senior, his academic interests include political science, international markets and foreign affairs. Professionally, he is also studying astrophysics and just completed an assignment with NASA this past summer. He worked in Private Equity for Morgan Stanley in Singapore last summer focusing on principal (core and opportunistic) investments and in the bank's Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Hong Kong the summer before that, focusing on deal execution across Asia. Prior to that, he worked for JP Morgan in New York in their Investment Bank focusing on Credit. Siddharth was also a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University where he worked with Dr. John Nash, Jr. on 'competitive behavior analysis'. At UT, he is President Emeritus of the University Investors Association, President of the Investment Banking Association and Founder/Chair of the Texas Investment Conference.