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.

H. Carl Gettinger's involvement with the Franklin Fellows Program dates from July 2008. He works with the Senior Advisor to bring mid– to senior–level representatives of corporations, universities and colleges and non-governmental organizations into the State Department for one year periods. He works particularly closely with academic institutions.

Mr. Gettinger came to the Franklin Fellows Program after serving as the Executive Secretary of the Khartoum Accountability Review Board. He served on another Review Board, related to the murders of USG personnel in Karachi, in 2006. Before that, he worked in Iraq, as the Regional Coordinator in Mosul in 2005 and 2006. Mr. Gettinger was assigned to various posts in Japan over a 12-year period. He attended the Japanese National Institute of Defense Studies in Tokyo. In addition, he had several years of duty in Latin America, first in Chile, then in El Salvador and Argentina. He won the Harriman Award in 1982 for his work in El Salvador.

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.