Highlights Only

Professional Experience

• Consultant, November 2008-present, LMN Solutions, Inc.

• Consultant, Principal, February 2008-November 2008, CACI International, Inc.

• Consultant 3, May 2006-February 2008, CACI International, Inc.

• Online Content Editor, April 2006, KCI Communications, Inc.

• Contributing Editor, February 2006-April 2006, Neil's Bond Desk

• Assistant Managing Editor, August 2004-April 2006, KCI Communications, Inc.

• Co-Managing Editor, July 2003-August 2004, Comparative Education Review

• Judge, Europe: East and West, Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, March 26, 2004

• Co-founder and organizing committee chair, First Annual Russian and East European Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Historical and Contemporary Forces of Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Communist Societies,” University of Pittsburgh, March 5-6, 2004

• Co-founder and co-editor, 2000-2001, Janus (University of Maryland’s first undergraduate history journal)

Education

• Certificate of Advanced Study in Eastern Europe, April 2004, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh

• M.A., December 2003, Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

• B.A., May 2001, Government & Politics with High Honors, University of Maryland, College Park

• B.A., May 2001, History, University of Maryland, College Park

Published Material (Peer Reviewed)

• Koepke, Jason R. and Nils Ringe, 2006. The Second-Order Election Model in an Enlarged Europe. European Union Politics 7 (3), 321-346

Published Material (Not Peer Reviewed)

• Numerous investment-related articles on technology, healthcare, and other topics.

• "Beating The Commies." Review of How The East Was Won: The Impact Of Multinational Companies On Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union, by Charles Paul Lewis. By George, March 20, 2006.

• “Summer Reading.” Review of Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Realty, by Olaf Gersemann, and Transforming the European Economy, by Martin Neil Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard. Wall Street Winners, August 17, 2005, 12.

• "The EU's Big Issues." Wall Street Winners, July 20, 2005, 12.

• "Poverty's Prognosis." Review of The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Wall Street Winners, June 15, 2005, 12.

• "Russia Matters." Personal Finance, January 12, 2005, 5.

• "'Secret Pogrom' brushes truth behind inquisition." Review of Stalin's Secret Pogrom, edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov and translated by Laura Esther Wolfson. The Jewish Chronicle, August 9, 2001, 6, 20.

Conferences and Presentations

• “Refining and Redefining the Second-Order Election Model: Protest or Pure Preference Voting in Central and Eastern Europe,” with Nils Ringe, 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-7, 2007

• “The Second-Order Election Model in an Enlarged Europe,” with Nils Ringe, 77th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, January 5-7, 2006

• “Introduction to Serbia and an Overview of Its Present Situations,” Invited briefing paper for the Government Academy Program, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES), and University of Belgrade Department of Political Science program sponsored by the United States Department of State, August 2004 and September 2003

• “The Importance of Formal Education to Strategic Voting: Evidence from Central Europe,” with Margit Tavits, 48th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, Salt Lake City, UT, March 9-12, 2004

• “Two-Level Games and Constraints: The Strategic Framing of Montenegro’s Independence Movement” First Annual Center for Russian and East European Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Historical and Contemporary Forces of Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Communist Societies,” University of Pittsburgh, March 5-6, 2004

• “Examining the Framing of the Final Phase of Yugoslavia’s Dissolution: Montenegro’s Independence Movement in a Comparative Perspective,” 75th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 8-10, 2004

• Discussant, “The Assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjić: Implications for Serbia,” Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES), University of Pittsburgh, April 19, 2003

• “A Balkans Stability and Growth Pact: The Economics Behind Montenegro’s use of the Euro,” BMW Center for German and European Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Defining Europe’s Future: The EU at a Crossroads,” Georgetown University, March 21-22, 2003