Mr. Pope served as the Vice President for Homeland Security of MPRI, an L-3 Communications subsidiary, during 2005-2006, after his retirement from the U.S. Senior Foreign Service. During his Foreign Service career, Mr. Pope had overseas tours in Rome, The Hague, Pretoria, Paris and elsewhere and held a number of high-level positions in Washington, most recently as the State Department's Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He is on the Boards of the Fisher House Foundation and the Michael Stern Parkinson's Research Foundation at Rockefeller University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Security & Defense Agenda, a Brussels-based forum on defense and security issues, and serves as a Diplomatic Fellow at George Mason University.

Anne E. Luna is responsible for many of the administrative details of the Franklin Fellows Program. She brings a wealth of knowledge to this position, having worked in various branches of government since 1970, including as a member of the Foreign Service.

Commencing her career in England as an Administrative Assistant, she participated in projects as varied as the first atomic power station in Cruachan, Scotland; the Kariba Dam in Kenya; and a major electrical interconnection system between Bogota, Medellin, Cali and Barranquilla in Colombia. She has served the State Department in Zaire, Cameroon, Tunisia, Ecuador, Spain, El Salvador, Honduras, Burma, Kenya, Mexico, and the U.K. She ended her Foreign Service career in Washington, D.C. as a Personnel Officer where, among other things, she updated recruiting and hiring methods for Office Management Specialists by introducing computerized, online testing procedures for the first time.