Program Manager, Defense Institution Reform Initiative (DIRI)

Jeanne Giraldo is the Program Manager for the Defense Institution Reform Initiative (DIRI), a new Office of the Secretary of Defense initiative to provide support for strategic capacity building in the defense ministries of U.S. partner nations. She also teaches in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where she was a founder and director of the Program for Drug Control Strategy and Policy. She is a participant in the Latin America regional program of the Center for Civil-Military Relations and headed a project on fighting corruption in post-conflict settings for the Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS) at NPS. She has traveled widely in Latin America and written on democratization and political representation, civil-military relations, and security issues. Her most recent book-length publication is Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2007), co-edited with Harold Trinkunas. An edited volume on Central American gangs (with Tom Bruneau and Lucia Dammert) is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. Other publications include: "Legislatures and National Defense: Global Comparisons" and "Defense Budgets, Democratic Civilian Control, and Effective Governance" in Thomas Bruneau and Scott Tollefson, Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations.

Giraldo was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in political science and Latin American studies from Princeton University and a National Science Foundation fellow at Harvard University, where she did her master's degree and doctoral training.