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Talia Dubovi served as Interim CEO of Humanity in Action, Inc. from 2023 to 2025. A Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action (Netherlands, 2000), she was also a member of the Board of Directors from 2011 to 2025 and Co-Chair of the American Planning Board from 2006 to 2016.
Talia was previously vice president and director of the Diversity and Leadership in International Affairs Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she led the design and execution of CSIS’s first diversity and inclusion program. Prior to that, she was associate vice president and deputy director of External Relations at CSIS, where she played a key role in the reorganization of the department, after serving as deputy director of CSIS’s Global Health Policy Center.
Talia spent six years working in Congress, where she covered a wide range of foreign policy and national security issues. She is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project, a senior associate (non-resident) with CSIS, and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2015-2020. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Updated May 2025
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