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Jon Calame is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He lives in rural Maine, where he coordinates the Affordable Heat Consortium, a non-profit dedicated to reducing winter heating costs in Down East Maine. He was a co-founding Partner and Operations Officer of Minerva Partners, a non-profit consultancy group working internationally to support cultural heritage conservation programs that strengthen local communities. Before founding Minerva Partners, Calame served as partnerships manager for the World Monuments Fund in New York, and worked in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, towards a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for neighborhoods and individual monuments. He studied the master plan for urban re-integration as a Fulbright Scholar in Nicosia, Cyprus, and studied Italy’s Roma camps as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He received a MacArthur Foundation Research u0026amp; Writing Grant for field work in support of a 2009 book entitled Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia. Calame has lectured widely on post-conflict reconstruction, divided cities, and iconoclasm. He received undergraduate training in architectural history at Yale and graduate training in historic preservation of architecture at Columbia.