Dr. Claire Wagner '10, Ryan Goldstein '93, and Sasha Baker '05 Join Dickey Center Board of Visitors

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth is pleased to welcome three new members to its board of visitors this fall: 

Dr. Claire Wagner '10 is Head of Corporate Strategy and Market Access at the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute where she supports the execution of the CEO's vision and serves as a member of the leadership team. She leads the institute's global access strategy across the portfolio as well as related engagement with commercial partners, financial institutions, and multilaterals. 

Prior to joining the institute, Wagner served for several years in Kigali, Rwanda working for Rwanda's Minister of Health co-authoring >20 scientific articles and advancing national health system strengthening programs. She later coordinated a global effort with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Union for International Cancer Control resulting in the 16-drug 2015 expansion of the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines for cancer. 

Wagner has since consulted for pharmaceutical companies and non-profits regarding access to healthcare products and services in low- and middle-income countries. She is an Associate Scientist in Medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and is co-author of >40 scientific publications. 

She is a Dartmouth '10, and has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Ryan Goldstein '93 is Managing Partner of the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's Tokyo Office and lives full time in Japan. His practice is devoted to complex business litigation, including patent and intellectual property litigation, antitrust, class actions, product liability, criminal investigations, defamation, and contract/fraud disputes. Goldstein teaches comparative international law, in Japanese, at Doshisha University and Tokyo University and served as a visiting scholar at Waseda University Law School. He generally lectures, in Japanese, on a variety of topics related to complex litigation, including patent and intellectual property law issues, the attorney-client privilege, trial strategy, and e-discovery. He has appeared in over 50 Japanese publications, including feature articles in the Nikkei Newspaper, Sankei Newspaper, Lawyers Magazine, Nikkei Business Journal, and Business Law Journal. His book, The Weapons of Negotiation, has been published in Japanese and Chinese. Goldstein has appeared regularly as a commentator on CNN Saturday Night, a live CNN Japan news show that aired weekly on the BS Asahi channel.

Goldstein is on the Board of Directors for the East Asia Super League, a new basketball league. He is the Representative Director for Cheer Japan, representing the Japanese national team in performance cheer and cheerleading. He owns Q Sushi, a Michelin-star authentic sushi restaurant in Los Angeles as well as Gaku Ramen, an authentic ramen chain with restaurants in Burlington and Fort Collins.  He also works with the Sadogatake Sumo Stable.

Goldstein is head of the Dartmouth Club of Japan and created and designed the Dickey Center's Goldstein Internship program which seeks to bring Dartmouth students to Japan for internships or study in Japan in their off-terms.  

He graduated from Dartmouth in 1993 with a double major in history and Asian Studies, from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1998, and studied at Waseda University on a Monbusho Scholarship.

Sasha Baker '05 is a senior advisor at OpenAI, where she focuses on building public-private partnerships to advance preparedness for developments in artificial intelligence. Previously, Sasha served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, after being confirmed by the Senate as the Deputy Under Secretary in February 2022. In this role, she served as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for defense policy and led the Pentagon's efforts to build partnerships and enhance defense cooperation globally.

Baker has held key roles across administrations over her nearly two decades of government service. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council, leading a team in drafting the 2022 National Security Strategy. She was the national security advisor for Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Deputy Policy Director on her 2020 presidential campaign. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, leading his efforts to accelerate innovation and build a more robust defense technology ecosystem. 

Baker joined the civil service as a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget, where she served in the Homeland Security and National Security divisions and later as Special Assistant to the OMB Director. She began her public service career with the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, supporting bipartisan congressional reviews on a variety of national security topics. 

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Dartmouth College and a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal with oak leaf cluster. She resides in Washington, DC, with her husband and son.

Also on our board of visitors:

Elizabeth McClintock '86, Chair

Lola Adedokun '03

Jamal Brown '08

Kanchan Chandra '93

Meredith Wilson Chang '05

Sarah Charles '82

David Edelson '81

L. Brooks Entwistle '89

Tanya Ghani '03

Sara Burch Khairallah '98

Thomas Morrow '92

Samantha Schnee '92

Terry Ann Scriven '78

Virginia Wood '95