Sheila M.Q. Scanlon

Sheila M.Q. Scanlon, Colonel, USMC, (ret). served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Interior for Administration and Support and as a Gender Advisor for both the Ministry of Interior and Commander NTMA/CSTCA during her combat tour in Afghanistan. As a civilian, she later served as the Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Defense (MoD) of Afghanistan for Gender Integration and was also member of the MoD Advisory Team.

She earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in National Strategic Studies and Regional Studies in the Middle East from the National War College.

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