Our Team
Dr. Scott G. BORGERSON is a Principal at Rhumb Line LLC. He also serves as the Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow at the Fletcher School's Maritime Studies Program, and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy. Before co-founding Rhumb Line, he served as Director of the U.S. Coast Guard's Institute for Leadership and taught maritime and port security courses at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. During a decade on active duty, he contributed to Coast Guard strategic planning and served several tours at sea, holding positions as navigator aboard the Cutter Dallas and commanding officer of the Patrol Boat Point Sal. Dr. Borgerson's Op-Ed articles have appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and USA Today, among other newspapers, and his essays have appeared in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs and The Atlantic Monthly. Dr. Borgerson is also a regular guest on major television and radio programs speaking on a wide range of foreign policy, homeland security, and maritime topics. He received a B.S. with high honors from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.A.L.D. and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School. He serves as a Director and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He is a term member of the CFR and a delegate to the US-Japan Leadership Program. He also holds a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer Masters License.
Dr. G. Rockford WEITZ is a Principal at Rhumb Line LLC. He also serves as a Fellow at the Fletcher School's Maritime Studies Program, a Fellow at Fletcher's Program on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the Rhode Island Ports and Harbors Inventory Project. Dr. Weitz received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School, and a B.A. in International Relations from the College of William and Mary. He has published Op-Ed articles on maritime topics in The New York Times, The Straits Times (Singapore), The Christian Science Monitor, and The Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers, and has been interviewed on maritime matters by The Journal of Commerce, Tradewinds, Professional Mariner, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Straits Times (Singapore), and Harper's Magazine, among others. He has also taught courses on Contemporary Maritime Affairs at the Fletcher School. His Ph.D. dissertation examined the role of Lloyd's of London as a transnational actor, using maritime security cooperation along the Malacca Straits as a primary case study. Before co-founding Rhumb Line, he served as international legal counse at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. He also worked at the U.S. Trade Representative and Securities America, Inc. He serves as a Director and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He is member of the Washington State Bar Association and a fellow in the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program.
Dr. John Curtis PERRY is a Senior Advisor at Rhumb Line LLC. He also serves as Director of the Maritime Studies Program at the Fletcher School, where he has held the Henry Willard Denison Chair since 1981. For 14 years, he served as Director of Fletcher's North Pacific Program, which annually brought students and faculty together for summer seminars in various North Pacific nations. He now teaches Maritime History and Contemporary Issues in Maritime Affairs. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies and a M.A. in Foreign Area Studies from Yale University and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He has published five books and numerous articles, served as a consultant to the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan Export Trade Promotion Organization (JETRO), lectured at many universities at home and abroad, frequently appeared on television and radio, and contributed to newspapers and journals in the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Russia and elsewhere. He recently published Op-Ed articles on maritime topics in the New York Times, Straits Times (Singapore), and Christian Science Monitor, among other newspapers. He serves as a Director and President at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. In 1991, he received a Japanese imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, for "extraordinary contributions to American-Japanese relations."
Dr. Andrew C. HESS is a Senior Advisor at Rhumb Line LLC. He also serves as the Director of the Fletcher School's Program on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Kent State University, a M.A. in European History from University of Pittsburgh, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. He was a scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. He subsequently taught at American University in Cairo and Temple University. From 1978 to 1984, he held executive positions with the Arabian American Oil Company in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. In 1984, he joined the faculty of the Fletcher School. He is the author of The Forgotten Frontier: A History of Sixteenth Century Ibero-African Relations and numerous scholarly articles dealing with the Middle East, including "The Arabs and Technology," The World and I, February 1990; "Review Essay: Riding Out the Storm?," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Summer/Fall 1994; "Peace and Political Reform in the Gulf: The Private Sector," Journal of International Affairs, Summer 1995; and "Eurasia and the Geopolitics of Gas," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter 2008.
Doug RAYMOND, an Advisor at Rhumb Line LLC, is a product manager at Google and in that role acts as the general manager of several teams focused on the development and launch of novel mobile and advertising technologies. Prior to Google, he served as an officer in the United States Army, where he managed network operations for the 66th Military Intelligence Group in Darmstadt, Germany, and taught as an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Maryland European Campus in Heidelberg. Doug is the author of six Harvard Business School published case studies on technology and media companies and is a frequent speaker at industry events. Doug holds a B.S. in economics and computer science from the United States Military Academy, an M.S. in information systems from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Director of the Truman National Security Project. He serves on the board of several early stage technology companies in the homeland security space.