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and international law enforcement agencies to identify and seize counterfeit
products, such asthe U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Bureau of
Investigations, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. Additionally, he is an Executive Board Member of the International
Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) and acts as a special advisor to the National
Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force, a
member of the NYC Mayor’s Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force, the Canadian
Anti-Counterfeiting Network, Co-Chair of the Interpol Intellectual Property Crime
Action Group, INTA Anti-Counterfeiting & Enforcement Committee, member of the
WCO IPR Strategic Group and frequently serves as a keynote speaker an
anti-counterfeiting conferences worldwide. Mr. Monks earned a Bachelor of Science from
the New York Institute of Technology-Old Westbury and an MBA from Dowling College.
Mr. Monks was selected in June 2013 as a member of the A-CAPP Industry Advisory Board
and board President in October 2015.
Christie Poitra (Turtle Mountain) is the Assistant Director of the Michigan State University
Native American Institute. Her views on the importance of action research have been shaped
by her academic and professional experiences in different aspects of the K-12 education
sector, and work with Indigenous communities. She believes research with Indigenous
communities and reservation schools should be an iterative, collaborative and empowering
process. Her scholarship, service and teaching interests are defined by three interrelated
ideas. The first area centers on how current state, federal and school policy contexts affect
Indigenous education experiences. This line of inquiry explores the partnerships between
tribes and reservation/reservation-adjacent K-12 schools, and the unintended ways that
district, state and federal policies shape the practices of instructional leaders in
reservation/reservation adjacent K-12 schools. The second area of research examines the ways
that tribal leaders respond to internal and external political climates through educational
policy and program development. The third line of research looks at how tribal leaders’
perceptions and definitions of human capital need shape educational investments in their
communities.
Cliff Grammich holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. Dr. Grammich has
worked for policy and social research organizations for more than 20 years. Topics of his work
have included criminal justice, national security, demographic, and education issues. He has
co-authored several works on supply-chain risk management issues, police recruitment and
retention, sharing and consolidation of public safety services, and reconstructing internal
security in post-conflict societies. He has overseen several data gathering initiatives, including
the only county level enumeration of religious bodies in the United States. In addition, he has
worked in local and metropolitan print and broadcast journalism. Dr. Grammich is working with
the A-CAPP to develop a synthesis of existing research on product counterfeiting as well as on
various projects about the nature of and response to product counterfeiting.
Hairong Li is a professor of advertising, faculty associate of the Center for Business and Social
Analytics, and core faculty of Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University. His research
covers the uses, effects and implications of digital technology in advertising, communication
and marketing. He has received grants from Baidu, Google, WPP, Microsoft, Marketing Science
Institute, American Academy of Advertising, MSU Foundation and other sources. He has
published extensively, and his articles have appeared in many top journals, such as the Journal
of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Advertising,
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, New Media and Society, Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Psychology and
Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing, and Journal of International Business Studies. Dr.
Li is a founding editor of the Journal of Interactive Advertising and an editorial board member
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