Timothy Stackhouse Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

I am responsible for both legal and diplomatic duties conducted by the Office of International Affairs' South America team. These duties consist of managing a multi-hundred case docket of extradition and mutual legal assistance cases several countries, administrative tasks, and data input. I support Trial Attorneys in helping U.S. prosecutors to prepare requests for fugitives and evidence located abroad pursuant to the requirements of bilateral treaties and multilateral conventions, and coordinate with U.S. Embassy personnel and foreign counterparts to ensure the timely and full execution of those requests. I also review requests for extradition and evidence received from abroad. The requests often require reading in Portuguese and Spanish and are for all types of crimes, from violent crime, to international drug trafficking, to complex financial crimes and money laundering. I review the requests for legal and treaty sufficiency, prepare analysis memos of the requests for Trial Attorneys, and work with U.S. Attorney's Offices and other U.S. law enforcement agencies to ensure the requests are executed. I support Trial Attorneys in preparation for consultations with foreign governments and participate in the meetings, as well as other meetings, and interactions with foreign counterparts. I provide input for country briefers to prepare senior Department staff for meetings with high-level foreign counterparts, particularly my specific knowledge of relevant regional issues and how they pertain to specific legal issues. I am responsible maintaining accurate records for each case and participated in a working group that created an office-wide case tracker. I am responsible for interviewing, hiring, and managing interns on the South America team, and participated in the hiring committees for incoming international affairs specialists joining the office.

I was responsible for managing the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program and the Brazil Initiative within the Elliott School of International Affairs. This included, managing two program budgets, helping recruit prospective students, working with current students, alumni and faculty, course planning, website maintenance, creating a social media for both programs on Twitter and Facebook and planning events ranging from small roundtable discussions, to brownbag lunches to multi-day symposia.

I was responsible for providing excellent customer service to patrons in a craft cocktail-focused bar and restaurant.

I was responsible for maintaining the day-to-day operations of the Latin America department. This included receiving incoming calls, planning meetings, responding to routine correspondence and maintaining and updating contacts in a Personify database. I was also responsible for planning and scheduling travel abroad for economists in the department, reaching out to contacts to schedule meetings and arranging the itinerary as well as providing support while they were in the country.In addition to administrative responsibilities, I provided supplemental research for papers on Venezuela and Ecuador that were published in papers for the IIF's customers.

I was responsible for conducting research on a variety of topics related to Latin American political economy and the energy sector. I contributed significant research to a paper on the prospects for natural gas in Central America as well as shale gas development in Latin America as a whole. I also focused on the fiscal and energy reform agendas in Mexico, providing briefings for senior staff on the reforms as they progressed. I compiled a daily news briefing for internal use on important economic and energy topics in the region. I contributed research to the China in Latin America program when needed and wrote summaries of Dialogue events that were published on the website.

Bartender at an upscale gin-focused bar. I was responsible for service bar for the restaurant in addition to bar customers. I provided friendly and attentive service to customers, providing detailed recommendations on more than 50 different gins and ten house made tonics to ensure the best customer experience. I was also responsible for creating and maintaining inventory sheets using Microsoft Excel.

Elliott School Of International Affairs

I was a Teacher's Assistant for an intro-level survey class of modern Latin American politics, economics, culture and history. In the first semester, I was responsible for researching and creating approximately 30 PowerPoint presentations for lectures and helped design the class syllabus. During the semester when the course was taught, I was responsible for holding weekly office hours and book space for and hosting breakout sessions focusing on different topics, such as Bolivarianism. I assisted the professor in creating pop quizzes and tracked attendance and other grades via an Excel spreadsheet. I was responsible for grading exams and other submitted work. I also gave an in-class lecture on the prospects for the October, 2012 presidential elections in Venezuela.

I was responsible for providing excellent customer service while constructing hand-made drinks. I also would work on the cash register and perform opening and closing duties. I assisted in training new partners. I completed the Coffee Master program and was responsible for educating staff about the coffee products and driving whole bean sales.

I was responsible for conducting research for the program director and the program fellows on various topics related to Latin America, especially preliminary research and annotated biographies. I contributed one or two pieces to a monthly publication on events in Latin America and compiled weekly news summaries. I helped plan and execute program events and was responsible for escorting high level guests.

I was responsible for organized case documents into a digital database, entering new case data into the data base and performing reception duties.

Ma, Latin American And Hemispheric Studies

Ba, International Affairs

Education record

Completed a semester abroad