During this time , he also served as Senior Fellow of the Institute of the North , founded by Hickel , which was a part of the Alaska Pacific University . He served as the Institute ’s first full-time Managing Director and Adjunct Professor of Business . Treadwell also did research at the Institute . He focused on strategic , defense , management , transportation , and telecommunications of Alaska . He is a co-author of '' Missile Defense , the Space Relationship , and the Twenty-First Century '' as well as lead author of '' Why the Arctic Matters , a Commonwealth North 2009 study . '' In 2008 Treadwell served as a delegate for Alaska in the 2008 Republican National Convention and served early on as co-chair of Mitt Romney 's 2008 Presidential campaign in Alaska
2008 Republican National Convention
2008 Republican National Convention
Mead Treadwell