Gillian Gunn Clissold is the Associate Director for the Caribbean Programs at Trinity College. She has provided briefings on Cuba to representatives from the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Congress. She was also one of sixteen Cuba specialists chosen to participate in the Florida International University "Cuba in Transition" project, prepared under contract with the U.S. Department of State. Prior to this work, Dr. Gunn was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Gunn completed her Ph.D. at the London School of Economics