David RamseurDavid Ramseur is a visiting scholar in public policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research. He served as press secretary, communications director, chief of staff, and foreign policy advisor to AlaskaGovernors Steve Cowper and Tony Knowles and to Anchorage Mayor and US Senator Mark Begich. Ramseur has visited the Soviet Union and Russia more than a dozen times starting with the Alaska Airlines' "Friendship Flight" in 1988. Read More Read Less