Paul V. Kane

Paul V. Kane
Paul V. Kane is an American Iraq War Veteran, a published writer/author, a Fellow at Harvard's International Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, with experience working at the UN, on Capitol Hill, and in venture capitalism abroad.
Early life
Born in Washington D.C. Grew up in Maryland and educated in the local parochial and public schools.
Capitol Hill
During 1981, Kane worked six months as a junior staffer in US Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md) congressional office monitoring committee activity on banking, human rights and environmental issues. From 1981-82, Kane served on US Senator Edward M. Kennedy's congressional staff. He was assigned to handle inquiries from concerned constituents, assist with political social events, and monitor committee activity for Kennedy aide and senior advisor, Carey Parker. That same year, Kane traveled to Ireland and Northern Ireland to interview those involved in the conflict between Irish nationalist groups (IRA, Social Democrats Labor Party, etc.) and unionist groups, including MP John Hume, head of the SDLP and a subsequent co-recipient of the Noble Peace Prize.
UN
During 2005-2006, Kane performed special service work on an assignment as the head of a joint task force within the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) at UN Headquarters (UNHQ) in New York City. The task force's mission was to review the 18 ongoing peacekeeping interventions and operations the UN had operational then across the globe. There were 110 "troop contributing countries" to the UN DPKO that the task force reviewed, analyzed and evaluated (mission, personnel, financials, participation) in order to make recommendations on how future contributions of troops by various countries should be reimbursed by the UN. This group surveyed how much the various countries paid their troops, how UN peacekeeping operations were typically configured. This was the first survey of such data using open sources since 1993. Kane made recommendations to the DPKO that were received and approved by the UN Fifth Committee and put forward to the UN Secretary General for reform in UN policy.
Education
* Harvard University, Cambridge MA
* Fellow, International Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
* Georgetown University, Washington DC
* Certificate for completing graduate program in Theological Studies.
* IBM Corporate Institutes of Marketing, Armonk NY and Atlanta GA
* University of Maryland, College Park MD
* B.A. degree in Political Economy (top 10%) with graduate studies in Market Research Design.
Awards
* Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism awarded by the President of the United States (2009)
* Harvard Faculty Grant awarded by Harvard’s Middle East Initiative (2004)
* American-Ireland Fund Entrepreneur Award from The American Ireland Funds (1999)
* Business Top 50 Award presented by the Irish Ambassador to the United States (1999)
* Wall Street Fast-50 Award presented by the Editors of Irish-America Magazine (1999)
Published works
* “Advice for the Secretary of Defense,” live interview with Sirius XM Satellite Radio (2009)
* "Up, Up, and Out," New York Times, Op-Ed Feature (2009)
* “More Credit is Due to Ireland’s Achievements,” Financial Times, Op-Ed Letter (2009)
* “A Better Book for Obama’s Bedside,” Financial Times, Op-Ed Letter (2008)
* “Home from the War: What our Veterans Need,” New York Times, Op-Ed Letter (2008)
* “General Petraeus Takes Command,” live interview on BBC World New Service (2008)
* “Basra Offensive and Iraq,” live interview on Bloomberg TV Financial News (2008)
* “Iraq War: State of the Surge,” live commentator on BBC World News Service (2008)
* “A Grim Milestone: 4,000 Dead,” live commentator for National Public Radio (2008)
* “Iraq Progress Report: Five Years and Counting,” Harvard Media Feature (2008)
* “More Finger-Pointing Over Iraq,” New York Times, Op-Ed Letter (2007)
* “We Owe it to Iraq to Set Aside Partisan Politics,” Financial Times, Op-Ed Letter (2007)
* “Iraq: The Back Story,” live interview on Chet Curtis Show, New England Cable TV (2007)
* “Iraq Progress Report: Reading Between the Lines,” Harvard Media Feature (2007)
* “Reflections on the Iraq War,” live interview with BBC World News (2007)
* “Review of Developments in Iraq,” live interview with BBC World News (2006)
* “Personal Reflections on Iraq,” live interview with BBC Home Service (2006)
* “The Direction of the Iraq War,” live panel debate on National Public Radio (2006)
* “A Peaceful Call to Arms,” New York Times, Op-Ed Feature (2006)
* Marines magazine and Marine Corps News features, photographs and articles (2005-08)
* “Whose Children Fight the War?” New York Times, Op-Ed Letter (2005)
* “Lessons Learned by Marine Forces in Iraq,” Marine Corps Gazette, co-author article (2004)
* Irish Times and Sunday Business Post of Ireland, business commentator (1999-2000)
* Red Herring magazine commentator on technology and U.S. private investment (1999)

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