Jake Cusack has a joint Masters in Public Policy and Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame?s Honors Program. He served as a Marine Corps officer and his military decorations include the Bronze Star, Navy Commendation Medal, and Combat Action Ribbon. Mr. Cusack has worked as a geopolitical analyst for the US government and at Abraaj Capital, a leading emerging market private equity fund. He is on the board of the Harvard Leadership Institute, has written for the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes, was a contributing author to Passion & Purpose from Harvard Business Press and published research on frontier markets with the Center for a New American Security and Kauffman Foundation. He has spoken at the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for Public Leadership, the US Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, and appeared on NPR, in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek.