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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE OFFICE 1
AFRICA CENTER 2
GLOBAL ENERGY CENTER 6
DINU PATRICIU EURASIA CENTER 12
GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS PROGRAM 17
BRENT SCOWCROFT CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY 19
ADRIENNE ARSHT LATIN AMERICA CENTER 41
RAFIK HARIRI CENTER FOR THE MIDDLE EAST 43
SOUTH ASIA CENTER 51
FUTURE EUROPE INITIATIVE 54
MILLENNIUM LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 58
INDEX BY KEYWORDS 59
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 1
Executive Office Africa Center
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Frederick Kempe | @FredKempePresident and CEO
Germany, Global Trends, US Foreign Policy
New York Times, CNBC, Handelsblatt
Kempe comes to the Council from a prominent twenty-five-year career at the Wall Street Journal, where he won national and international recognition while serving in positions including editor and associate publisher of the Wall Street Journal Europe.
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. | @JonHuntsmanChairman
Asia, China, US Foreign Policy
Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg
Governor Huntsman began his career in public service as a staff assistant to President Ron-ald Reagan. He has served each of the four US presidents since then in critical roles around the world, including as ambassador to Singapore, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for Asia, US trade ambassador, and most recently, US ambassador to China.
Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilsonExecutive Vice President, Programs and Strategy
Europe, Europe’s East, NATO and its Partners, US National Security Policy and Strategy
BBC, Politico Europe, Newsweek
From 2007 to 2009, Wilson served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. He played a leading role in develop-ing and coordinating US government efforts to work with Europe on global challenges.
David Ensor | @EnsorDavidBExecutive Vice President, External Relations
Europe, Media, US Foreign Policy
Handelsblatt
Prior to coming to the Council, Ensor was the director of Voice of America and director of communications for the US Embassy in Kabul. For over thirty years, Ensor was an award-winning television and radio correspondent for outlets including CNN, ABC News, and NPR.
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 2
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Africa Center
AFRICA CENTER
J. Peter Pham | @ACAfricaCenterDirector, Africa Center
African Security, US Foreign Policy, Violent Extremism
CNN, BBC, Washington Post
Pham was previously senior vice president of the National Committee on American For-eign Policy, and editor of its bimonthly journal, American Foreign Policy Interests. He has served on the Senior Advisory Group of the US Africa Command since its creation.
Bronwyn Bruton | @BronwynBrutonDeputy Director, Africa Center
African Security, Al-Shabaab, Violent Extremism
New York Times, Foreign Policy, NPR
Bruton previously held an international affairs fellowship at the Council on Foreign Rela-tions and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that she managed the National Endowment for Democracy’s multi-million dollar portfolio in East and Southern Africa.
Kelsey Lilley | @KelseyDegenAssociate Director, Africa Center
African Security, Civil Society
The Atlantic, CTV News, CCTV
Lilley previously worked for the Society for International Development, where she offered operational and financial support. From 2012 to 2013, she lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she was a Princeton in Africa fellow for the International Rescue Committee.
Rudolph Atallah | @RudyAtallahNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Violent Extremism
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC
In his last military posting, Atallah served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Africa counterterrorism director. He retired in 2009 after twenty-one years of service in the US Air Force, developing expertise in aviation, special operations, intelligence, and counterterrorism.
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 3
Africa Center Africa Center
Aubrey Hruby | @AubreyHrubyNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure, Trade Policy and International Trade
Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, NPR
Hruby is the former managing director of the Whitaker Group, an Africa-focused corporate strategy and investment advisory firm. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies to design and implement successful investment and market entry strategies in Africa.
Ricardo Réne LarémontNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
African Security, Democracy and Human Rights, North Africa
Bloomberg, CNN, US News and World Report
Larémont’s work focuses on North Africa and the Sahel, and he is a leading expert on po-litical Islam, Islamic law, conflict resolution, democratization, and civil/military relations on the African continent.
Christopher LeinsNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
Constitutional Reform, Security Sector Reform, US Defense Policy
New Atlanticist
Leins retired from the US Army in 2014 after thirty-five years of service. He served four years as the director for politico-military affairs (Africa) on the Joint Staff where he was responsible for advising the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Defense De-partment leaders.
Robert LloydNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
African Security, Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb, International Security
Lloyd worked for five years in Kenya, South Africa, and Mozambique with SIL International, an educational and linguistic nongovernmental organization. Lloyd has published numer-ous scholarly articles on international conflict management, international negotiation, democratization, and Africa.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Africa Center
Sean McFate | @seanmcfateNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
Defense Contractors, Mercenaries, Security Sector Reform
New York Times, Al Jazeera, Wall Street Journal
McFate is an expert on strategy, the future of war, and international relations with an unconventional background across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He worked in Africa for several years for DynCorp International providing international security services.
Constance Berry NewmanNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
African Security, Democracy and Human Rights, Political Reform
US News and World Report
Newman developed extensive experience on economic development in Africa as assistant secretary of state for African affairs, assistant administrator for Africa at the US Agency for International Development, and President Bush’s G8 representative on Africa.
Gerard PrunierNonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Center
African Security, Violent Extremism
New York Times, Foreign Policy, Agence France-Presse
One of the foremost Africanists in the world, Prunier is the author of more than two hundred scholarly articles and a dozen books in four languages on genocide in Africa. He has served as an adviser to the French government and the US Departments of State and Defense.
Abdoul Salam Bello | @as_belloVisiting Fellow, Africa Center
African Security, Fiscal and Structural Reform, Infrastructure
Voice of America, Jeune Afrique, AfricaSource
Bello is an adviser to the World Bank Group, where he specializes in international rela-tions, African development, and strategy. Previously, he served as chief of staff to the Afri-can Union New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU-NEPAD) Agency in South Africa.
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ATLANTIC COUNCIL 5
Africa Center Global Energy Center
Chloë McGrath | @malawicoffeeVisiting Fellow, Africa Center
African Security
Chloë is a South African Fulbright grantee who has lived and worked throughout the Southern and East African region. She previously worked as a volunteer aide to Zimba-bwe’s minister of education, sport, art, and culture during the Government of National Unity.
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 6
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Global Energy Center
GLOBAL ENERGY CENTER
Richard L. Morningstar | @ACGlobalEnergyFounding Director and Chairman, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, European Union
Handelsblatt, Huffington Post, Hurriyet
Ambassador Morningstar served as US ambassador to Azerbaijan from July 2012 to August 2014. Previously, he was the secretary of state’s special envoy for Eurasian energy begin-ning in April 2009. From June 1999 to September 2001, he served as US ambassador to the European Union.
David Koranyi | @DavidKoranyiDirector, Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative
Energy Policy and Security
Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, CNN
From 2009 to 2010 Koranyi served as undersecretary of state and chief foreign policy and national security advisor to the prime minister of the Republic of Hungary Gordon Bajnai. Prior to joining the Council, he was a nonresident fellow at the SAIS Centre for Transatlan-tic Relations.
David L. Goldwyn Chairman of the Advisory Group, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Mexico Energy Reform
New York Times, US News and World Report, Reuters
Goldwyn served as the US Department of State’s special envoy and coordinator for inter-national energy affairs from 2009 to 2011, reporting directly to the secretary of state. He conceived and developed the Global Shale Gas Initiative and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative.
Thomas CunninghamDeputy Director, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
Christian Science Monitor, New Atlanticist
Cunningham joined the Council following a thirteen-year career at the US Department of State, where he most recently served as energy diplomacy team lead for Europe at the Bureau of Energy Resources from August 2013 to May 2016.
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 7
Global Energy Center Global Energy Center
Cynthia Quarterman Distinguished Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Technology
Wall Street Journal, Reuters, USA Today
Quarterman served as the administrator of the US Department of Transportation’s Pipe-line and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) from 2009 until 2014. She has been a key policymaker in energy development, safety, and transportation since the Clinton administration.
Bud CooteResident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
The Telegraph, Oil & Gas Journal, Foreign Policy
Coote recently retired from the CIA as the agency’s leading international energy analyst and a key adviser to senior US officials on a wide array of global energy issues. He helped to establish and build the CIA’s energy program dating back to the early 1970s.
Peter DeanNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Technology
Dean is on the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the founder of the Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies Concentration, and the cofounder of The Biennial De-sign Science Symposium. He is also a cofounder of the Global Sustainability Fellows Program.
Charles Ellinas | @CharlesEllinasNonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative
Energy Policy and Security
Natural Gas Europe, Sigma Live
Ellinas has over thirty-five years of experience in the oil and gas sector and is CEO of Cy-prus-based energy consultancy e-CNHC. Prior to joining e-CNHC, he served as CEO for the Cypriot National Hydrocarbon Company (KRETYK).
ATLANTIC COUNCIL 8
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Global Energy Center
Robert F. Ichord, JrNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Climate Change, Energy Policy and Security
Ichord comes to the Council after forty years of US government service in advancing US international energy interests. He most recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for energy transformation in the Energy Resources Bureau at the US Department of State from 2011 to 2015.
David Mortlock | @mortlockdavidNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Russia
Mortlock was director for international economic affairs at the White House National Security Council. He has served in various positions at the US Department of State, includ-ing deputy coordinator for sanctions policy and attorney-advisor for sanctions and terror finance.
Miyeon Oh Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
China, Energy Policy and Security
Oh is a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies, where she received her PhD. Until recently, she was at the Brookings Institutions as a foreign policy pre-doctoral research fellow, where she worked closely with the Energy Security and Climate Initiative.
Friedbert PflugerNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
Pflüger is the managing director of Pflüger International Consulting GmbH in Berlin, a pro-fessor of international relations at King’s College London, and the director of the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at King’s College. From 1990 to 2006, he was a member of the German Bundestag.
Ian Ralby | @ImRalbyNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
African Security, Energy Policy and Security, NATO and its Partners
Ralby is an adjunct professor of maritime law and security at the Africa Center for Strate-gic Studies at National Defense University, a key opinion former on maritime security and NATO, and CEO of his own consultancy, I.R. Consilium LLC.
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ATLANTIC COUNCIL 9
Global Energy Center Global Energy Center
Alan RileyNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Global Business and Economics
Politico, Wall Street Journal, Natural Gas Europe
Riley is a professor at City Law School, which advises governments, EU institutions, non-governmental organizations, and corporations on major strategic problems in relation to abuse of dominance, price-fixing, and merger cases concerning strategic problems in the global and European energy markets.
Amrita Sen Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
Nikkei Asian Review
Sen is a founding partner and chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects. Sen leads Energy Aspects’ analysis and forecasting of crude and products markets. She specializes in energy com-modities, particularly oil and oil products, and has over ten years of experience analyzing the industry.
Jean-Francois SeznecNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Global Business and Economics
New York Times, Voice of America, New Atlanticist
Seznec is managing partner of the Lafayette Group, a US-based consulting and investment company. His research centers on the influence of the Arab-Persian Gulf, as well as political and social variables on the financial and oil markets in the region.
Brenda ShafferNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Eurasia
CNBC, NPR, Newsweek
Shaffer is also a visiting researcher and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Cen-ter for Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies. She is the author of a number of books related to these issues, including most recently Energy Politics (University of Penn-sylvania Press, 2009).
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Global Energy Center
Branko Terzic | @BrankoDuTerzicNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
Terzic’s national and international career in energy and the regulated public utility indus-tries has included service as commissioner on the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-sion, as a management consulting engineer, and as an energy company CEO.
Sara Vakhshouri | @SVakhshouriNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Global Business and Economics, Iran
Reuters, BBC, S&P Global Platts
Vakhshouri is the founder and president of SVB Energy International, a strategic energy consulting firm based in Washington, DC. She has worked in both the public and private sectors of the Iranian energy industry, including at the National Iranian Oil Company.
Adnan VatanseverNonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative
Energy Policy and Security, Turkey
New Atlanticist
Vatansever is an accomplished expert on Eurasian energy issues. He previously worked as a senior associate in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in energy in the former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Caucasus.
Heather ZichalNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center
Climate Change, Energy Policy and Security
Christian Science Monitor, Des Moines Register, New Atlanticist
Zichal previously served as the deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change for the Obama administration, shaping and executing top energy and climate prior-ities and coordinating policy development and implementation across the administration.
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Global Energy Center Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Annie MedagliaNonresident Fellow, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security
Before joining the Council, Medaglia was special adviser to both the special envoy for Eur-asian energy and the special envoy for international energy affairs at the US Department of State, where she directed diplomatic engagement on energy with Europe, Russia, and Ukraine.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
DINU PATRICIU EURASIA CENTER
John E. Herbst | @JohnEdHerbstDirector, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
NATO and its Partners, Russia, Ukraine
Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNN
Ambassador Herbst served for thirty-one years as a foreign service officer in the US Department of State. He was US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006, where he worked to enhance US-Ukrainian relations and helped ensure the conduct of a fair Ukrainian presidential election.
Defne ArslanDirector, Energy & Economic Summit, Atlantic Council Representative for Turkey
Energy Policy and Security, Turkey
Anadolu Agency, Hurriyet Daily News, Haberturk TV
Arslan joined the US government in the US Embassy Ankara in 1997 as a senior economist responsible for monitoring International Monetary Fund/World Bank programs during Tur-key’s economic crisis years, rising to the rank of chief Turkey economist and senior adviser on Turkey.
Alina Polyakova | @AlinasphereDeputy Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy
Polyakova served as an adviser to various nongovernmental organizations in Europe and the United States working on democratic transparency and governance in post-socialist Eastern Europe. For her doctoral work, she interviewed social movement activists in Ukraine.
Pinar Dost-NiyegoAssociate Director, Atlantic Council Turkey Office and Energy & Economic Summit
Eurasia, Turkey
New Atlanticist
Dost-Niyego’s research is mainly focused in the fields of modern Turkish diplomatic history, US-Turkish relations, Turkish foreign policy, Turkey’s energy policy, and Holocaust educa-tion. She earned a PhD in 2010 and an MA in 2003 from Sciences Po.
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Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Ross WilsonDistinguished Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Eurasia, Turkey
New Atlanticist
Ambassador Wilson served nearly three decades in the US Foreign Service, including six years as US ambassador to Turkey from 2005 to 2008 and to Azerbaijan from 2000 to 2003. He also served at the US embassies in Moscow and Prague and was American consul general in Melbourne, Australia.
Anders Åslund | @anders_aslundResident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Global Business and Economics, Russia, Ukraine
Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times
Åslund is a former Swedish diplomat and leading specialist on the East European econo-mies. He has served as an economic adviser to several governments, notably to the Rus-sian government from 1991 to 1994, and to the Ukrainian government from 1994 to 1997.
Coit “Chip” Blacker Nonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Russia, US Foreign Policy
Blacker served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration. He was director of the Freeman Spogli Institute from 2003 to 2012.
Matthew Bryza | @BryzaMatthewNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Energy Policy and Security, International Security, Turkey
CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek
Ambassador Bryza served twenty-three years as a US diplomat. His most recent assign-ment was as US ambassador to Azerbaijan from February 2011 to January 2012. He is the director of the International Center for Defence studies in Tallinn, Estonia, and he lives in Istanbul.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Irena Chalupa | @KhatynkaNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Ukraine
New Atlanticist
Chalupa is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Her long career with RFE/RL has fea-tured postings in Munich, Kyiv, Prague, and Washington, DC.
Ariel Cohen | @Dr_Ariel_CohenNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Energy Policy and Security, Global Business and Economics, Russia
International Business Times, Huffington Post, Natural Gas Europe
Cohen is the founder and director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources, and Geopol-itics and a senior fellow at the Institute for Analysis of Global Security, a Washington, DC, think tank. He is also the principal of International Market Analysis, a political risk advisory.
James J. Coyle Nonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Caucasus, Terrorism, Ukraine
New Atlanticist
Coyle is director of global education at Chapman University, and visiting professor of public policy at Pepperdine University. Before joining Chapman University in 2004, Coyle was a foreign service officer for twenty-four years with postings in Pakistan, Germany, and Turkey.
Diane Francis | @dianefrancis1Nonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Energy Policy and Security, Global Business and Economics, Technology
Huffington Post, New Atlanticist
Francis is an award-winning columnist, bestselling author, investigative journalist, and television commentator. She is editor-at-large at Canada’s National Post and has covered major news events including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismantling of the Soviet Union.
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
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Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Agnia Grigas | @AgniaGrigasNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Energy Policy and Security, Russia
Newsweek, The Hill, Reuters
Grigas has more than a decade of private sector experience as an adviser to corporations and government institutions. She is the author of three books including Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire (Yale UP, 2016).
Adrian Karatnycky | @MyrmidonGroupNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Transatlantic Relations, Ukraine, US Foreign Policy
Politico, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy
Karatnycky is a managing partner of Myrmidon Group LLC, which advises investors on markets in Eastern Europe. From 1993 to 2004 he was president and executive director of Freedom House, where he assisted democratic and human rights movements in Russia and Ukraine.
Brian Mefford | @meffkievNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Civil Society, Trade Policy and International Trade, Ukraine
BBC, New Atlanticist
Mefford is a business and political consultant who is based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Named by the Kyiv Post as one of the twenty “Most Influential Expats in Ukraine,” he has lived and worked in Eastern Europe continuously for more than fifteen years.
David A. Merkel Nonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Energy Policy and Security, Eurasia, International Financial Institutions
Real Clear World, The Diplomat
Merkel has served as deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and director for European and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council. He is cur-rently the managing director of Summit International Advisors and lectures on the geopol-itics of energy.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
John M. RobertsNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Middle East Policy and Security
Quartz, New Atlanticist
Roberts served as managing editor at Platts for twelve years and previously worked at the Financial Times covering energy. He is currently a senior partner with Methinks Ltd, a consultancy specializing in the interrelationship between energy, economic development, and politics.
Mark D. SimakovskyNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Eurasia, Europe, NATO and its Partners
Simakovaky became vice president of Beacon Global Strategies, LLC in February 2015. Pre-viously he was the Europe/NATO chief of staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, where he oversaw the Department’s European force posture, regional engagement, deterrence, and reassurance initiatives in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
Harry Tzimitras | @h_tzimitrasNonresident Senior Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Global Energy Center
Energy Policy and Security, Maritime Security, US Foreign Policy
Tzimitras is the director of Peace Research Institute Olso Cyprus Centre. His teaching, research, and policy interests lie primarily in the fields of public international law, the law of the sea, foreign policy, energy geopolitics, the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey.
Laura Linderman | @ljlindermanNonresident Research Fellow, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Civil Society, Georgia, Political Reform
US News and World Report, Business Insider, RFE/RL
Linderman was previously the Eurasia Center’s associate director. In that position, she developed and shaped analytic and intellectual work on Georgia and supported work on Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan and executed related event programming.
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Global Business and Economics Program Global Business and Economics Program
GLOBAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS PROGRAM
Andrea Montanino | @MontaninoUSADirector, Global Business and Economics Program
Eurozone, Global Business and Economics, International Financial Institutions
CNBC, Politico, Agence France-Presse
Montanino formerly acted as executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), representing the governments of Italy, Albania, Greece, Malta, Portugal, and San Marino. Before joining the IMF, he was a career officer in the Italian Ministry of Finance from 2006 to 2012.
Chris Brummer | @ChrisBrummerDrC. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Finance and Growth, Global Business and Economics Program
China, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Reuters, Channel News Asia, International Financial Law Review
Brummer is also the project director and creator of the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative, and he leads the Council’s work on examining RMB internationalization. He lectures widely on finance and global governance, international trade, and international law.
Douglas J. Besharov | @DouglasBesharovNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program
Global Business and Economics, US Manufacturing Policy, Workforce Development
Huffington Post, C-SPAN, Marketplace Radio
Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on comparative social policy, policy analysis, and program evaluation. He is the director of the University’s Center for International Policy Exchanges.
Julie ChonNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program
Fiscal and Structural Reform, Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
Chon serves as managing director and global head of public investment strategy at Perry Cap-ital. Prior to joining Perry Capital, Chon crafted landmark US policy responses to stabilize the financial crisis as senior adviser to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Global Business and Economics Program
Lorenzo Pace | @lfpaceNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program
Eurozone, Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
Pace is professor of European law at the European University of Rome (Italy) and former Jean Monnet professor. He has written extensively on European competition law and is the editor of the Competition Law Dictionary and the editor of the blog www.competi-tion-law.eu.
Dante RosciniNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program
Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
New Atlanticist
Roscini is a professor of management practice in the business, government, and internation-al economy unit at Harvard Business School (HBS). Prior to HBS, he spent twenty years in the investment banking sector with senior positions at three of the top US bulge bracket firms.
Earl Anthony Wayne | @EAnthonyWayneNonresident Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics Program
Development, Terrorism
New Atlanticist
From 2011 through July 2015, Wayne served as the US ambassador to Mexico. During his tenure, Mission Mexico helped establish the US-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue, the Mexico-US Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council, and new energy and environmental dialogues.
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
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Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
BRENT SCOWCROFT CENTER ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Barry Pavel | @BarryPavelVice President, Arnold Kanter Chair, and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
NATO and its Partners, US Defense Policy, Violent Extremism
SiriusXM Radio, Politico, BBC
Previously, Pavel was a career member of the Senior Executive Service in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for almost eighteen years. He served under both Presidents Bush and Obama as a member of the National Security Council staff.
Daniel Y. Chiu | @DYCinWDCDeputy Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
US Defense Policy, US Foreign Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
The Telegraph, Defense News
Chiu is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, where he was responsible for developing national defense strategy and guidance for defense investments in military force structure, technology, and non-materiel solutions.
August Cole | @august_coleDirector, Art of Future Warfare Project, and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, US Foreign Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
War on the Rocks, The Atlantic, NPR
Cole’s fiction writing tackles themes at the core of American foreign policy and national security in the twenty-first century, including the privatization of military and intelligence operations and the future of American power in the Pacific.
Carles Castello-CatchotChief of Staff, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Entrepreneurship, Global Trends, Technology
Voice of America, New Atlanticist
Before his current position, Castello-Catchot was the Council’s associate director for strategic foresight, leading engagement with tech firms in Silicon Valley and Boston and managing the Strategic Foresight Initiative’s key projects on global trends and innovation.
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EXPERTS GUIDE 2016 EXPERTS GUIDE 2016Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
HuiHui OoiAssociate Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Asia, Democracy and Human Rights, Global Business and Economics
New Atlanticist
Originally from Malaysia, Ooi majored in economics and international studies at Miami University of Ohio and holds an MA in international relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She supports the Atlantic Council’s programming on Asia security and strategy.
Alexander Ward | @alexwardbAssociate Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Military Affairs, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Foreign Policy, The National Interest, War on the Rocks
Before joining the Council, Ward worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, the US De-partment of State, and Northrop Grumman. He works on US defense strategy, policy, and military affairs, and he received a BA and MA from American University’s School of Inter-national Service.
Chuck HagelDistinguished Statesman, Atlantic Council
US Defense Policy, US Foreign Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Politico, The Guardian
Hagel was the twenty-fourth secretary of defense, serving from February 2013 to Febru-ary 2015. He is the only Vietnam veteran and the first enlisted combat veteran to serve as secretary of defense. Over his tenure, he directed significant steps to modernize America’s partnerships and alliances, advance the rebalance in Asia-Pacific, bolster support for Euro-pean allies, and enhance defense cooperation in the Middle East while overseeing the end of America’s combat mission in Afghanistan.
Franklin D. KramerDistinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security, NATO and its Partners, US Defense Policy
Defense News, US News and World Report, The Hill
Kramer has been a senior political appointee in two administrations, including as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs for President Clinton and as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
EXPERTS GUIDE 2016
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Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Jan M. LodalDistinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, US Defense Policy, US Foreign Policy
Washington Post
Lodal was president of the Atlantic Council from October 2005 until the end of 2006. Pre-viously, he served as principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy and as a senior staff member of the National Security Council. He currently serves as chairman of Lodal and Company.
Jasmine El-Gamal | @jasmineelgamalResident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Middle East Policy and Security, US Defense Policy, Violent Extremism
El-Gamal served as special assistant to several under secretaries of defense for policy, and was the country director for Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon at the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Secretaries Gates, Panetta, Hagel, and Carter.
Robert A. Manning | @Rmanning4Resident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Asia, China, North Korea
Global Times, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera
Manning has previously worked at the National Counterproliferation Center and the US National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group. He was a member of the US Secre-tary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and was senior counsellor for energy, technology, and science policy at the US Department of State.
Dave Barno | @DWBarno76Nonresident Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and National Security Policy, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Middle East Policy and Security, Military Affairs, US Foreign Policy
War on the Rocks, Federal News Radio, Time
In his thirty-year active duty Army career, Barno commanded at every level while serving as an infantry officer, ranger, and paratrooper. From 2003 to 2005, he commanded the 20,000 US and coalition forces in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Nora Bensahel | @norabensahelNonresident Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and National Security Policy, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Military Affairs, US Defense Policy, US Foreign Policy
War on the Rocks, Federal News Radio
Bensahel is a widely published expert on US defense policy, US military operations and force structure, coalition and alliance operations, and leader development. She is current-ly a distinguished scholar in residence at the School of International Service at American University.
Matt Brand Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
Brigadier General, USA (Ret.) Brand worked for the last fifteen years in senior policy po-sitions with the US Department of Defense, most recently serving as the deputy chief of staff, strategic plans and policy for NATO’s Allied Command-Transformation in Norfolk, VA.
Kate Brannen | @K8brannenNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, US Defense Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Vocativ
Brannen is a freelance reporter focusing on national security. She previously worked as a senior reporter covering the Pentagon for Foreign Policy. Prior to joining Foreign Policy, she was a defense reporter for Politico and the author of Morning Defense.
Elisabeth Braw | @elisabethbrawNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
European Union, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
Foreign Affairs, Politico, The National Interest
Braw recently joined the Christian Science Monitor as a correspondent. She is also a reg-ular contributor to Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, specializing in northern European security, and writes the Transatlantic Connection blog for the World Affairs Journal.
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Henrik Breitenbauch | @breitenbauchNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, NATO and its Partners, Nordic-Baltic Security
Le Monde, The American Interest
Breitenbauch has worked for and advised NATO’s Allied Command Transformation on long-term defense planning and strategic foresight analyses. He also advises Danish authorities on defense and security policy.
Max Brooks | @MaxBrooksUKnews Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, Nontraditional Threats, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Modern War Institute
After working for the BBC in Great Britain and East Africa, Brooks began writing The Zom-bie Survival Guide. His New York Times best-seller, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, has been made into a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt.
Roger CliffNonresident Senior Fellow, Asia Security Initiative, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Asia, China, International Security
Reuters, Bloomberg, Defense News
Previously, Cliff worked for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the Project 2049 Institute, the RAND Corporation, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and VERAC, Inc. He frequently writes on US strategy and policy in the Asia-Pacific and China specifically.
Alan Cohn | @fifteencharlieNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security
Cohn most recently served as the assistant secretary for strategy, planning, analysis, and risk and second-in-charge overall of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Policy. In that role, Alan established the Cyber Policy Office within the DHS Office of Policy.
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Jon DunneNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, Maritime Security, US Foreign Policy
Lt. Col Dunne has completed three deployments as part of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, deployed in support of contingency operations in Haiti and Bosnia, deployed to Iraq on two occasions, and recently served as the plans officer at Marine Corps Forces, Africa.
Paul R. S. GebhardNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations, US Foreign Policy
Gebhard served in the US government in a number of senior executive career positions, including as special assistant to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, assistant chief of staff to Secretary of Defense Cohen, and director for defense plans at the US Mission to NATO.
Kenneth Geers | @KennethGeersNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security, NATO and its Partners, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Geers is a professor at the University of Kyiv, Ukraine; an ambassador for the NATO Cyber Centre in Estonia; and a senior research analyst at ZeroFOX. He spent twenty years in the US government, including with the National Security Agency, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and NATO.
Quentin HodgsonNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security, Internet of Things
Hodgson currently advises the US government on developing and implementing strategy and policy to address cyber threats. From 2011 to 2014, Hodgson was chief of staff and director for cyber planning, operations, and programs in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense.
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Ash JainNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Asia, Middle East Policy and Security, US Foreign Policy
Swedish National Public Radio
Jain previously served as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff, focus-ing on US alliances and partnerships, as well as global and regional security challenges. He was also formerly executive director for the Project for a United and Strong America.
James Joyner | @DRJJoynerNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, International Security, US Foreign Policy
Christian Science Monitor, War on the Rocks, Real Clear Defense
Joyner served in the US Army from 1988 to 1992 and is a combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He is currently an associate professor of security studies at the US Marine Corps Com-mand and Staff College and previously served as the managing editor of the Atlantic Council.
Matthew Kroenig | @kroenigNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Arms Control, Iran Nuclear Program, US Defense Policy
Wall Street Journal, Reuters, US News and World Report
Previously, Kroenig was a special adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked on defense policy and Iran strategy. In 2005, he worked in the Office of the Sec-retary of Defense where he authored the first-ever US government strategy for deterring terrorist networks.
Erwan Lagadec | @erwanlagadec77Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
European Union, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
In 2005 Lagadec joined the French Navy Reserve, where he specialized on policy plan-ning. He has been a consultant for the French Foreign Ministry’s Policy Planning Staff, the French Military Mission in the United States, the French Military representation to the European Union, and the US Mission to the European Union.
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Kathleen J. McInnis | @kjmcinnis1Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
NATO and its Partners, US Defense Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
McInnis currently serves as an international security analyst for the Congressional Research Service. From 2006 to 2010, she served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), working NATO-Afghanistan matters and stability operations capability development.
Jamie Metzl | @JamieMetzlNonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
China, Genetics, North Korea
CNN, CBS News, Bloomberg
Metzl is currently a senior adviser to a New York-based global investment firm. He previ-ously served as executive vice president of the Asia Society in addition to holding positions with the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the State Department, and the National Security Council.
Martin NeillNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, NATO and its Partners, Technology
Neill served for twenty years with the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, including po-sitions as a defence diplomat at the British Embassy in Washington, DC from 2009 to 2012 and director of the Ministry of Defence in London from 2007 to 2009.
Pierre NoelNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
US National Security Policy and Strategy
Noel previously served as the chief of hematology and a senior clinician for the National Institute of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda and a consultant for the White House Home-land Security Council. He is currently a professor of medicine at Mayo and the director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology.
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Patrick O’ReillyNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, Military Affairs, US Defense Policy
Los Angeles Times, Defense News, Real Clear Defense
During his Army career, O’Reilly was director of the US Missile Defense Agency and held many positions of responsibility for the procurement of missile defense systems, combat support vehicles, and power generation equipment. He is currently senior vice president at Alphabet Energy, Inc.
John RaidtNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, Middle East Policy and Security, US Defense Policy
In 2008, Raidt served as deputy to General James L. Jones (USMC-Ret.), special envoy for Middle East regional security, focusing on resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. He also serves as a scholar at the Forum for Innovation and as an adviser to the US Chamber of Commerce.
Todd Rosenblum | @ToddRosenblum1Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Counterterrorism, Cyber Policy and Security, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Politico
Rosenblum is currently president and CEO of National Security Outcomes (NSO). He pre-viously served as the acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas’ security affairs from May 2011 to January 2015.
John B. Sheldon | @JohnBSheldonNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security, Space Security
CCTV, The Strategy Bridge
Sheldon is founder and principal consultant at The Torridon Group LLC, an independent space and cyber security policy consultancy in Washington, DC, and chairman and president of the ThorGroup GmbH, a space consulting and media company in Bern, Switzerland.
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Stanley Sloan | @srs2_Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
European Union, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
The National Interest, War on the Rocks
Sloan served as the first deputy national intelligence officer for Europe at the Central Intel-ligence Agency (CIA) and as a member of the US Delegation to negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions. He is currently a visiting scholar in political science at Middle-bury College.
Stefano StefaniniNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Italy, NATO and its Partners, Russia
Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe
Stefanini has been diplomatic adviser to the president of Italy, Italian permanent represen-tative at NATO, and deputy chief of mission at the Italian Embassy in Washington. He had previously served at the United Nations in New York and Moscow.
Claire Yorke | @ClaireYorkeNonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
International Security, United Kingdom
Yorke is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She was previously a manager at the International Security Research Department at Chatham House as well as a parliamentary researcher at the House of Commons for defense policy.
Keith Detwiler US Army Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Maritime Security, Military Affairs, NATO and its Partners
Colonel Detwiler was commissioned as an infantry officer from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1988. His operational experience consists of one deployment to Iraq and three deployments to Afghanistan. Colonel Detwiler most recently served as the chief of staff of United States Army North (Fifth Army).
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Steven Horrell | @StevenHorrellUS Navy Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Maritime Security, NATO and its Partners, Violent Extremism
Defense One, USNI News
Captain Horrell has been a naval intelligence officer since commissioning in May 1991. He was most recently the director of intelligence at the Joint Intelligence Operations Center Europe (JIOCEUR) Analytic Center at Royal Air Force (RAF) Molesworth United Kingdom.
Jason Kirby | @RunKirbyRun1US Air Force Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Military Affairs, US Defense Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Lieutenant Colonel Kirby is a career special operations officer, most recently commanding an Air Force special operations squadron from 2013 to 2015 at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, overseeing persistent global operations.
Tien-Chen LeeTaiwan Air Force Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Asia, Military Affairs
Colonel Lee graduated from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in Dayton, Ohio. He is currently an associate professor and has been teaching at the Republic of China Air Force Academy. He earned his PhD in information system from Nova Southeastern Univer-sity in 2006.
Dave AnthonyNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Innovation, Nontraditional Threats, Technology
BBC, Bloomberg, Washington Post
A writer, director, and producer, Anthony is best known for his pioneering work on the blockbuster “Call of Duty” video game franchise. In 2010, he wrote the screenplay for and directed “Call of Duty: Black Ops.” His work focuses on the future of conflict and warfare.
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Beth Flores | @BethivywhyNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Afghanistan, US Defense Policy, US National Security Policy and Strategy
Flores served as a civil servant at the Pentagon where she advised the secretary of defense on national security policy and gained first-hand experience into the human dimension of conflict on assignment in Afghanistan.
Malia K. Du MontNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Afghanistan, Asia, US Defense Policy
Du Mont previously worked for the US Department of Defense in various advisory and analyst positions at NATO, in Afghanistan, and in the Pentagon, including most recently as director of strategy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Olin L. WethingtonNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
China, Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
Voice of America
Wethington previously served as chairman, AIG Companies in China and has also held a number of positions in the US government, including: special envoy on China; counselor to the secretary of the US Treasury; and director, economic policy, Coalition Provisional Authority (Iraq).
Ali Wyne | @Ali_WyneNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
China, International Security, US Foreign Policy
New Atlanticist, War on the Rocks
Wyne served on the transition team of US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. He is a coauthor of Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013).
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CYBER STATECRAFT INITIATIVE
Joshua Corman l @joshcormanDirector, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Politico, Christian Science Monitor
Corman previously served as CTO for Sonatype, director of security intelligence for Aka-mai, and in senior research and strategy roles for The 451 Group and IBM Internet Security Systems. He co-founded @RuggedSoftware and @IamTheCavalry.
Beau Woods l @beauwoodsDeputy Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Bloomberg
Woods focuses on the intersection of cyber security and the human condition, primarily around Cyber Safety. This comes out of his work on the I Am The Cavalry civil society ini-tiative, ensuring the connected technology that can impact life and safety is worthy of our trust.
Dmitri Alperovitch | @AlperovitchNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
As a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity, cyber warfare, and cy-bersecurity, Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject matter expert on analysis, investigations, and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities and cyberthreats.
Jason Healey | @Jason_HealeyNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Christian Science Monitor, Democracy Journal, Politico
Healey was formerly the director of the Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and authored the first-ever history of cyber conflict. He was previously director for cyber infrastructure protection at the White House, where he advised the president on cybersecurity issues.
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Alexander KlimburgNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security, NATO and its Partners, US Defense Policy
Newsweek
Klimburg has advised governments and international organizations on national cybersecu-rity strategies, international norms of behavior in cyberspace and cyber-conflict (including war, cyber-crime, and cyber-espionage), critical infrastructure protection, and internet governance.
Jeff MossNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Moss is the founder and creator of both the Black Hat Briefings and DEF CON, two of the most influential information security conferences in the world. He previously worked as the chief security officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Neal PollardNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Pollard is a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he leads cybersecurity assessments and investigations into cybercrime, economic espionage, and insider threats globally for commer-cial clients. Previously, he served as a senior officer in the US intelligence community.
Gregory RattrayNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
During his twenty-three-year Air Force career, Rattray served as the director for cyber security on the National Security Council staff in the White House, where he was a key contributor to the president’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Katheryn E. RosenNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Rosen recently departed the US Department of Treasury serving as deputy assistant secre-tary for financial institutions policy and senior adviser to the assistant secretary of financial institutions, where she initiated and managed the secretary’s cybersecurity policy agenda.
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Megan Stifel | @MeganStifelNonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Stifel the founder of Silicon Harbor Consultants. She was previously an attorney in the National Security Division at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and most recently served on detail as director for international cyber policy in the National Security Council at the White House.
Tom Bossert | @TomBossertNonresident Zurich Cyber Risk Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Bossert is the president of Civil Defense Solutions, a risk management consulting firm. He previously served as deputy assistant to the president for homeland security, where he ad-vised President Bush on homeland security, counterterrorism, and continuity of operations.
Jeff Schmidt | @JASjeffschmidtNonresident Zurich Cyber Risk Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cyber Policy and Security
Schmidt is the founder and chief executive officer of JAS Global Advisors LLC and a two-de-cade veteran of the information security industry. He is a founder and elected director of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, the private sector component of the FBI’s InfraGard Program.
Klara Jordan | @JordanKlaraNonresident Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Cyber Policy and Security, NATO and its Partners
The Hill, BBC, Christian Science Monitor
Jordan is government affairs manager in the Policy and Privacy division of FireEye. Prior to joining FireEye, Jordan was deputy director at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative where she supported programming on cybersecurity, and led the programming on NATO and EU cybersecurity issues.
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EMERGING DEFENSE CHALLENGES INITIATIVE
Steven Grundman | @stevegrundmanM.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, Emerging Technologies in Defense and NatSec, US Defense Policy
Defense News, Federal News Radio, Aviation Weekly
Grundman is the principal of Grundman Advisory. In the 1990s, he served in a succession of appointments at the US Department of Defense culminating in his assignment as depu-ty under secretary for industrial affairs and installations.
James Hasik | @JamesHasikNonresident Senior Fellow for Defense, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Defense Industry, Emerging Technologies in Defense and NatSec, US Defense Policy
Wall Street Journal, Real Clear Defense, Agence France-Presse
As a consultant, Hasik has undertaken more than fifty discrete consulting projects on subjects including armored vehicles, shipbuilding and ship repair, artillery, naval weaponry, ammunition, precision munitions, and training and simulation.
MIDDLE EAST PEACE AND SECURITY INITIATIVE
Bilal Y. Saab | @BilalYSaabResident Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Peace and Security Initiative
Gulf, Middle East Policy and Security, US Defense Policy
The National, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera
Saab previously served as the founding executive director and head of research of the Washington, DC office of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, responsi-ble for directing the strategic operations, research programs, and growth activities of the Dubai-based company.
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Salam FayyadDistinguished Statesman, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Global Business and Economics, Middle East Policy and Security
Foreign Affairs, The Elders
Fayyad is an economist, independent politician, and former prime minister of the Palestin-ian Authority (2007-13). In March 2007, he was appointed again as minister of finance in a national unity government, and in June 2007, he was appointed prime minister.
Nicholas BlanfordNonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Peace and Security Initiative
Hezbollah, Middle East Policy and Security, Terrorism
MENASource, Christian Science Monitor, NOW
Blanford is the Beirut correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor and a defense and security consultant for IHS/Jane’s. He covers the politics and security affairs of Lebanon and Syria and is an expert on Lebanese Hezbollah, particularly the organization’s evolving military activities.
Rex Brynen | @RexBrynenNonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Peace and Security Initiative
Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security
Brynen has served as a member of the policy staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, as an intelligence analyst for the Privy Council (cabinet) Office, and as a consultant to other governments, UN agencies, the World Bank, and others.
John Watts | @John_T_WattsNonresident Senior Fellow, Middle East Peace and Security Initiative
Middle East Policy and Security, Terrorism, US Defense Policy
Watts has spent more than a dozen years working across military, government, and indus-try, focused on the nature of future warfare and implications of complex emerging security risks. As a consultant he has advised international, military, federal, and local government agencies.
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STRATEGIC FORESIGHT INITIATIVE
Mathew J. BurrowsDirector, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Emerging Technologies in Defense and NatSec, Global Trends, Nontraditional Threats
Bloomberg, Politico, The National Interest
Burrows was appointed counselor to the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in 2007 and director of the analysis and production staff in 2010. He was the principal drafter for the NIC publication Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, which received widespread recog-nition and praise.
Peter Engelke | @PeterEngelke1Resident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Global Trends, Innovation, Transatlantic Relations
Los Angeles Times, US Water Partnership, The National Interest
Engelke’s work involves identifying and assessing long-range trends, connecting them to current challenges, and designing innovative strategic responses for policymakers and thought leaders in Washington and beyond.
Peter Haynes | @peterhaynes1Nonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Big Data, Cyber Policy and Security, Internet of Things
FutureSource, Scientific American
Haynes was previously senior director, advanced strategies and research at Microsoft Corporation. For twelve years until the late 1990s, he was a full-time correspondent and editor at The Economist. His research focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, big data, and the internet of things.
Ayesha Khanna | @ayeshakhanna1Nonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Big Data, Cyber Policy and Security, Internet of Things
Khanna is the CEO and cofounder of The Academy, an innovative enrichment hub and chairman of Applied Skills, which operates digital platforms to train skills across the ser-vices sector. She previously cofounded the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group.
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Greg Lindsay | @Greg_LindsayNonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Innovation, International Security, Technology
Bloomberg, FutureSource
Lindsay is also a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and a research affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI).
Jaana Remes | @JaanaRemesNonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Entrepreneurship, Global Business and Economics, Innovation
Remes is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm. Since 2003, she has led MGI’s research on productivity, urbanization, competitiveness, and growth.
Paul Saffo | @psaffoNonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Big Data, Internet of Things, Technology
Saffo is a managing director of foresight at DISCERN and also teaches at Stanford Uni-versity, where he is a visiting scholar in the Stanford Media X research network. He is a forecaster with more than two decades experience exploring the dynamics of large-scale, long-term change.
Jennifer D. Sciubba | @profsciubbaNonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Energy Policy and Security, Gender, Global Trends
Washington Post, New Security Beat
Sciubba is an expert in the field of demographic security and is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College. She consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) on population, environment, and energy issues from 2006 to 2007.
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Maria J. Stephan | @MariaJStephanNonresident Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative
Afghanistan, Turkey, US Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs
Previously, Stephan was lead foreign affairs officer in the US State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, where she worked on both policy and operations. Her assignments entailed engaging the Syrian opposition in Turkey and serving at the US Embassy in Kabul.
TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY INITIATIVE
Magnus Nordenman | @MNordenmanDirector, Transatlantic Security Initiative
Maritime Security, NATO and its Partners, Nordic-Baltic Security
VICE News, Defense News, Al Jazeera
Previously, Nordenman served as a defense analyst with a Washington consulting company where he tracked and reported on the US defense budget, the development of unmanned systems, remote sensing technologies, the BRAC process, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Robbie Gramer | @RobbieGramerAssociate Director, Transatlantic Security Initiative
NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations, US Defense Policy
Politico Europe, Foreign Affairs, Defense News
Before joining the Council, Gramer worked at the Council on Foreign Relations, Kroll Advi-sory Solutions, the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, the Transatlantic Policy Network, and the US House of Representatives.
Jorge Benitez | @NATOSourceDirector, NATOSource; Resident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations, US Defense Policy
CNN, Politico, NPR
Benitez previously served as assistant for alliance issues to the director of NATO affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has also served as a specialist in international security for the Department of State and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis.
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Ian Brzezinski | @IanBrzezinskiResident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
NATO and its Partners, Ukraine, US Defense Policy
MSNBC, BBC, NPR
Brzezinski formerly served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy. His lead responsibilities included NATO expansion; Alliance force planning and trans-formation; and NATO operations in the Balkans, the Mediterranean, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Isabelle FrançoisNonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
Military Affairs, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
Trilateral Security Dialogue
François previously served at NATO headquarters as head of Euro-Atlantic integration and partnership. Prior to that, she held various positions on the NATO international staff, including director of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, where she spent five years from 2004 to 2009.
Robert NurickNonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
Europe’s East, Russia, US Defense Policy
New York Times
From February 2001 through August 2003, Nurick was the director of the Carnegie Mos-cow Center, a Russia-based public policy research institution, where he managed the intel-lectual agenda of the Center’s research staff and day-to-day Center operations.
Fabrice Pothier | @FabricePothierNonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
European Union, International Security, NATO and its Partners
Politico Europe
Pothier was previously head of policy planning at NATO where he helped develop Smart Defence, the Defence Capacity Building Initiative, and the Readiness Action Plan. He was also the founding director of Carnegie Europe.
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Marik StringNonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative
Eurasia, NATO and its Partners, International Security
Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest
String currently practices international and national security law at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, DC. From 2006 to 2013, he served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee professional staff of Chairman/Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN).
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Peter Schechter | @PDSchechterDirector, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Brazil, Cuba, Latin America, Mexico
Real Clear World, Foreign Policy, Agence France-Presse
Schechter is an international consultant with over twenty years of experience who has ad-vised many heads of state and business leaders around the globe, specializing in reducing reputational risk in increasingly adversarial political and communications environments.
Jason Marczak | @jmarczakDirector, Latin America Economic Growth Initiative
Cuba, Latin America, Trade Policy and International Trade, Venezuela
Financial Times, Forbes, Foreign Policy
Marczak frequently provides English- and Spanish-language commentary on political and economic issues in Latin America. He previously served as director of policy at Americas Soci-ety/Council of the Americas, where he cofounded Americas Quarterly magazine.
Andrea Murta | @murta30Associate Director, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Brazil, Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights, Latin America
The Telegraph, Christian Science Monitor
Murta joined the Atlantic Council from the intelligence firm Risk Advisory Group, where she ran the Business Intelligence Americas Division. A journalist by training, she was most recently the Washington, DC correspondent for Brazil’s leading newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo.
Capricia Penavic MarshallAmbassador-in-Residence, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Gender, US Foreign Policy
New York Times, CNN
From 2009 until 2013 Marshall served as chief of protocol of the United States, bearing the rank of ambassador, and was the United States’ lead representative in setting the stage for successful diplomatic engagement with other nations at the highest levels.
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Arturo Franco | @arturofrancoNonresident Senior Fellow, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Global Business and Economics, Innovation, Mexico, Trade Policy and International Trade
Latin Trade
Franco’s career combines high-level positions in Fortune 500 corporations and global organizations with public policy and international development experience, spanning from building materials giant CEMEX, and the World Bank, to social enterprises and two suc-cessful business start-ups.
Ricardo Sennes Nonresident Senior Brazil Fellow, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Brazil, Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
Wall Street Journal, Financial Times
A Brazil native, Sennes has been engaged in projects related to South America regional integration, energy and infrastructural market and regulation, the aerospace and defense industry, international trade, and political and economic developments throughout Latin America.
Miguel SilvaNonresident Senior Colombia Fellow, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Colombia, Latin America
US News and World Report
Silva is a Colombian journalist, lawyer, and political consultant. He served as chief of staff to President Cesar Gaviria, and continued in that role when President Gaviria became the secretary general of the Organization of American States.
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Frederic C. Hof | @FredericHofDirector, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security, Syria
Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Atlantic
Hof was conferred the rank of ambassador in connection with his duties as special adviser for transition in Syria. Prior to that appointment, he was the special coordinator for region-al affairs in the US Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace.
Mirette F. MabroukDeputy Director and Director of Research & Programs, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights, Egypt
BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg
Mabrouk was formerly director of communications for the Economic Research Forum, the foremost economic think tank for the Arab Countries, Turkey, and Iran. She is the founding publisher of the Daily Star Egypt, the country’s only independent English-language daily newspaper.
Stephen Grand | @StephenRGrandExecutive Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force
Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security
Grand is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World (at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings) and is the author of Understand-ing Tahrir Square: What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us about the Prospects for Arab Democracy.
Jessica AshoohDeputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force
Middle East Policy and Security, Syria
NHPR, New York Times, MarketWatch, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Ashooh spent a number of years based in Abu Dhabi, where she worked as a senior analyst in the UAE Foreign Ministry’s Policy Planning Depart-ment and specialized on the crisis in Syria.
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Nancy MessiehAssociate Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East; Editor, MENASource
Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights, Egypt
EgyptSource, MENASource
Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Messieh was based in Cairo, Egypt as the Next Web’s Middle East editor. She has also worked for the American University in Cairo Press and the Egyptian publication Midan Misr. She has been published in Phirebrush Magazine, Identity Theory, and others.
Tuqa NusairatAssociate Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Civil Society, Democracy and Human Rights, Political Reform
Previously, Nusairat worked at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) where she managed programs to promote dialogue on political reform and democracy between and among Americans and Middle Easterners.
Faysal Itani | @faysalitaniResident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Counterterrorism, Middle East Policy and Security, Syria
NPR, Newsweek, PBS Newshour
Itani’s expertise includes the conflict in Syria and its regional impact, sectarian politics, and political economy. Before joining the Atlantic Council, he worked as a risk analyst advising governments, corporations, and international organizations on the Middle East.
Karim Mezran | @MezranKResident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
New York Times, The Cipher Brief, Huffington Post Italy
As a distinguished Libyan-Italian scholar, Mezran brings enormous depth of understanding to the transition in Libya and elsewhere in the region. He is also an adjunct professor of Middle East studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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Aaron Stein | @aaronstein1Resident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Middle East Policy and Security, Syria, Turkey
Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, World Politics Review, Al Jazeera
Stein previously worked as a consultant for the International Crisis Group in Istanbul and has written on Turkey’s nuclear capabilities and Turkish elections. In addition to Turkey, his research interests include the Syrian conflict, nonproliferation, and the Iranian nuclear program.
Nussaibah Younis | @NussaibahResident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Iraq, Middle East Policy and Security, US Foreign Policy
New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian
Younis is a Middle East expert who specializes in Iraqi politics and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Her book Invasion to ISIS: Iraq, State Weakness and Foreign Policy is due to be published this year. She has given numerous TV and radio interviews on Middle East affairs.
Geneive Abdo | @AbdoGeneiveNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Iran Nuclear Program, Middle East Policy and Security
C-SPAN, NPR, MENASource
Abdo was formerly the liaison officer for the Alliance of Civilizations, a UN initiative estab-lished by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which aims to improve relations between Islamic and Western societies. Before joining the United Nations, Abdo was a foreign cor-respondent.
Cecile HellestveitNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security
Hellestveit has been affiliated with numerous research and policy institutes in Europe and the Middle East, advising governments, international organizations, and corporations on political, legal, and security issues in the Middle East.
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H.A. Hellyer | @hahellyerNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Democracy and Human Rights, Egypt, International Security
CNN, NPR, Vox
An analyst, author, and commentator, Hellyer previously served as the first Arab world-based senior practice consultant at the Gallup Organization, where he analyzed public opinion data in a variety of countries in the Arab world and the West.
Farrukh IqbalNonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Development, Global Business and Economics, Trade Policy and International Trade
Iqbal worked at the World Bank for thirty-three years before retiring in November 2015. He started his career as an economist before moving on to management assignments of which the last was as country director for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Mohsin KhanNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Middle East Policy and Security, Trade Policy and International Trade
Bloomberg, Economic Research Forum, Australian Financial Review
Previously Khan was the director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This department is responsible for providing policy advice to thirty-two countries and for advising the International Monetary Fund on devel-opments in the region.
Nabeel Khoury | @khoury_nabeelNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Middle East Policy and Security, US Foreign Policy
New York Times, Al Jazeera, Voice of America
Khoury served for twenty-five years in the Foreign Service in the US Department of State, retiring with the rank of minister counselor. He held posts including director of the Near East South Asia Office of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and deputy chief of mis-sion in Yemen.
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Richard LeBaron | @RLeBaronNonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Gulf, Middle East Policy and Security, US Foreign Policy
Washington Post, The Hill, Huffington Post
Ambassador LeBaron is a career diplomat with over thirty years’ experience abroad and in Washington, DC. His most recent overseas posting was as deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in London from August 2007 to August 2010.
Lawrence Pintak | @lpintakNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Religious Extremism, Terrorism, US Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy, Northwest Public Radio
Pintak is an award-winning former CBS News Middle East correspondent and writes on Islam and the US presidential election for Foreign Policy. He is also the host of The Murrow Interview and was founding publisher of Arab Media & Society, an online policy journal.
Jillian Schwedler | @DrJSchwedlerNonresident Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security
MENASource
Schwedler is a member of the editorial committee and former chair of the board of di-rectors of the Middle East Research and Information Project, publishers of the quarterly Middle East Report. She is the author of the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen.
Abdul Rahman AlAgeli | @AbdulRahmanLYFNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Civil Society, Middle East Policy and Security
AlAgeli is a former security file coordinator in the Office of the Libyan Prime Minister, where he was also deputy head of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Border Security. AlAgeli is also a founder of the Libyan Youth Forum, one of the largest and earliest youth organizations.
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Mona Alami | @monaalamiNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Gulf, Lebanon, Syria
The National, Asharq Alawsat, Al-Monitor
Alami is a regular contributor to a number of American and Arab publications includ-ing USA Today, Asharq Al-Awsat, and the Daily Star (Lebanon). She has produced several documentaries for Al Aan TV on Salafism and arms smuggling to Syria.
Yussef Auf | @YussefAufNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Constitutional Reform, Egypt, North Africa
EgyptSource
Auf has been a judge in Egypt since 2007 and previously served as an agent for the pub-lic prosecutor. In these roles he has supervised a variety of electoral processes, including parliamentary elections, presidential elections, and public referendums.
Bassem Bouguerra | @tunisienNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Civil Society, Security Sector Reform, Tunisia
MENASource
Bouguerra is a software engineer and democracy activist. Following the uprising in Tunisia, he moved back to his home country and started the Tunisian Institutional Reform (TIR), an organi-zation that advocates security reform through improving the police-citizen relationship.
Mohamed Eljarh | @EljarhNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Governance, Libya, Political Reform
KCRW, Al Jazeera, CNN
Eljarh has advised and briefed a number of NGO, business, and political delegations visit-ing post-revolutionary Libya. Eljarh’s writing has been published extensively in a number of outlets including Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and CNN.com.
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Zack Gold | @ZLGoldNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Egypt, Middle East Policy and Security, Violent Extremism
Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism
Gold focuses on Egyptian political and security developments and US policy in the region. He concurrently works as a consultant on Middle East counterterrorism, energy, and avia-tion security. His work on Sinai security and Egyptian-Israeli relations has been published and quoted widely.
Salam Kawakibi | @salamkawakibiNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Democracy and Human Rights, Middle East Policy and Security, Political Reform
Al Jadid
Kawakibi is deputy director for the Arab Reform Initiative. He is president of Initiative for a New Syria, associate researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, senior fellow with the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St. Andrews, and a member of the Consultative Council of the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly.
Fadel Lamen | @FadellamenNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Libya, Middle East Policy and Security, Political Reform
MENASource
Lamen is the president of the American Libyan Council and has served as a special adviser on the Middle East and North Africa for the US Defense Department and on public diplomacy for the US Department of State. He has also advised the Libyan transitional government.
Haykel Ben MahfoudhNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Democracy and Human Rights, Security Sector Reform, Tunisia
MENASource
Mahfoudh was formerly head of office for the Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) in Geneva. He has practiced law since 1996 with expertise in international law litigation, contract law, and economic law.
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Ramzy Mardini | @RamzyMardiniNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Iraq, Jordan
World Politics Review, Washington Post, NPR
Mardini is also an adjunct fellow at the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies. From 2010 to 2011, he served at the White House, within the Office of the National Security Advisor to the Vice President, and in 2006, on the Iraq desk at the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
Duncan PickardNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Democracy and Human Rights, Libya, Tunisia
Washington Post, Muftah, MENASource
Pickard was formerly the Libya country director for Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based democracy support organization. He also previously worked in Tunis for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. His work focuses on North African politics and political reform.
Tarek Radwan | @tradwanNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Arab Transitions, Civil Society, Egypt
Al Jazeera, USA Today, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Radwan was previously the chief editor for the MENASource blog. Prior to that he report-ed on the Middle East with Human Rights Watch’s MENA division and served as a human rights officer for the United Nations/African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur.
Sarah El Sirgany | @SsirganyNonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Civil Society, Egypt, Political Reform
CNN, MENASource
El Sirgany is a Cairo-based journalist and television producer, contributing to regional and international publications and networks including CNN, the New York Times, Al-Monitor, and Mada Masr. Until April 2012, she was the deputy editor of Daily News Egypt.
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SOUTH ASIA CENTER
Bharath Gopalaswamy | @ACSouthAsiaDirector, South Asia Center
Emerging Technologies in Defense and NatSec, India
Associated Press, Reuters, Huffington Post
Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Gopalaswamy managed the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he oversaw developing projects on South Asian security issues.
Barbara Slavin | @barbaraslavin1Acting Director, Future of Iran Initiative
Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, US Foreign Policy
C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, US News and World Report
Slavin is a career journalist and currently serves as the Washington Correspondent for Al-Monitor, a website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. She has traveled to Iran nine times, and is a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran.
Shuja NawazDistinguished Fellow, South Asia Center
Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
New York Times, Background Briefing, The Diplomat
Nawaz is a political and strategic analyst who has advised or briefed senior government and military officials in the United States, Europe, and Pakistan. He often writes and speaks on current topics for leading newspapers, civic groups, think tanks, and radio and televi-sion programs.
James B. Cunningham Nonresident Senior Fellow, South Asia Center
Afghanistan, US Foreign Policy
MSNBC, New York Magazine, NPR
Ambassador Cunningham has served as ambassador to Afghanistan and Israel in addition to ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. He has also held diplomatic postings in Stockholm, Washington, Rome, and the US Mission to NATO.
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Yelena Biberman Nonresident Fellow, South Asia Center
Counterterrorism, International Security, Nontraditional Threats
Political Violence at a Glance
Biberman brings to the Council expertise on unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency, and militias in Pakistan and India. She is currently preparing a book manuscript that focus-es on when and why states outsource violence to nonstate actors.
Ahmed Humayun | @AhmedHumayNonresident Fellow, South Asia Center
Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Washington Post, Foreign Policy, 3 Quarks Daily
Humayun is also the director of content at Hanover Research, a global advisory and in-formation services firm, where he leads programs that provide strategic insight to profit and nonprofit organizations. He has worked as an analyst and writer on foreign policy at various think tanks.
Gaurav Kampani Nonresident Fellow, South Asia Center
India, International Security
Kampani is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tulsa. His research interests cover international security and focus on the relationship between domestic institutions and strategic policy, military strategy, operations planning, and weapons devel-opment.
Manjari Chatterjee MillerNonresident Fellow, South Asia Center
China, India
Miller specializes in the foreign policy of rising powers India and China. Her book, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China, argues that the bitter history of colonialism affects the foreign policy behavior of India and China even today.
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Vasundhara Sirnate | @vsirnateNonresident Fellow, South Asia Center
Asia, India
The Hindu
A former journalist by training, Sirnate brings to the Council expertise on India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. She is currently the chief coordinator of research at The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. She is also currently completing her dissertation on counterinsurgency in India.
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FUTURE EUROPE INITIATIVE
Frances G. Burwell | @FranBurwellVice President, European Union and Special Initiatives, Future Europe Initiative
European Union, Transatlantic Relations, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Bloomberg, NPR, US News and World Report
Prior to joining the Council, Burwell was executive director of the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, and also served as founding executive director of Women in International Security.
Michał Kobosko | @michalkoboskoDirector, Wrocław Global Forum
European Union, Media, Poland
New Atlanticist
Previously, Kobosko was a media manager and journalist with more than twenty years of experience. He has served as the editor-in-chief of major international publications in Poland, including local editions of Forbes, Newsweek, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Simona Kordosova Lightfoot | @SimonaLightfootDeputy Director for Business Development, Europe Programs Campaign Manager, Future Europe Initiative
International Security, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
Euronews, US News and World Report, World Politics Review
Lightfoot manages the business development and strategy campaign to establish the Future Europe Center at the Atlantic Council. She also provides insights and analysis on NATO, transatlantic security, Central and Eastern Europe, and European affairs.
Sarah Bedenbaugh Associate Director, European Union and Special Initiatives
Balkans, Europe, European Union
US News and World Report, euobserver
Bedenbaugh began her career as a research assistant with the US Department of State’s Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS), where she published regular briefings for senior US officials on the bilateral relationship with Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo.
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Maksymilian Czuperski | @MaksCzuperskiStrategic Communications Advisor Europe and Special Assistant to the President
Digital Forensic Research & Open Source Intelligence, Europe, European Union
Voice of America
At the Atlantic Council, Czuperski has led efforts on open-source intelligence and digital fo-rensic research including for the report, Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine. Prior to the Council, he worked for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Nicholas Dungan | @Nicholas_DunganNonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative
European Union, France, United Kingdom
CNN, Le Journal du Dimanche, Le Temps
An adjunct faculty member of the Collège Universitaire of Sciences Po, Dungan is also a senior adviser to the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques in Paris (IRIS). He was president of the New York-based French-American Foundation from 2005 to 2008.
Evelyn Farkas | @EvelynNFarkasNonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Europe, Russia, US Defense Policy
NPR, CNN, MSNBC
Farkas served from 2012 to 2015 as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, responsible for policy toward Russia, the Black Sea, Balkans, and Cauca-sus regions and conventional arms control.
Sabine Freizer | @SabineFreizerNonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Caucasus, Civil Society, Turkey
New Atlanticist
Freizer has twenty years of experience working on southeastern Europe and Eurasia. She served as the Europe program director for the International Crisis Group (ICG) between 2009 and May 2013, supervising offices in Sarajevo, Pristina, Istanbul, Tbilisi, and Moscow.
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Jérémie GallonNonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative
European Union, France, Transatlantic Relations
Gallon is political adviser in the European Union Delegation to the United States. Prior to joining the European External Action Service, Gallon worked on numerous transactions in the defense and energy sectors, in particular as legal counsel to the French State.
Jeffrey Gedmin Nonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative
European Union, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
Voice of America, Newsweek, Politico Europe
Gedmin previously served for four years as president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) headquartered in Prague. He is the author of several books, including The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany (1992).
Eliot Higgins | @EliotHigginsNonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Future Europe Initiative
Digital Forensic Research & Open Source Intelligence, Russia
Wired
Higgins is an award winning investigative journalist, and founder of the Brown Moses Blog and Bellingcat. His inquiries have revealed extraordinary findings on subjects such as the downing of flight MH17 in Ukraine and the August 21, 2013 Sarin attacks in Damascus.
Ben Nimmo | @benimmoInformation Defense Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Future Europe Initiative
Digital Forensic Research & Open Source Intelligence, European Union, NATO and its Partners
From 1999 to 2011 Nimmo worked as a writer and journalist throughout Europe, including five years in Brussels covering EU and NATO issues for Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. In 2011 he joined the NATO press office.
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Daniel Vajdich | @DanielVajdichNonresident Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative
Europe’s East, NATO and its Partners, Transatlantic Relations
National Review, The American Interest, The Hill
Vajdich is president of Yorktown Solutions, which provides a broad range of bespoke consulting services to institutional investors with global portfolios. He previously worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with responsibility for Europe and Eurasia regional issues.
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MILLENNIUM LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Jonathan SilverthorneDirector, Millennium Leadership Program
Global Trends, International Security, US Defense Policy
With the Millennium Leadership Program, Silverthorne develops and manages a portfolio of emerging leaders initiatives. From 2009 to 2011, he worked at the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of International Affairs.
Daniel BennettAssociate Director, Millennium Leadership Program
Energy Policy and Security, Entrepreneurship, Global Trends
New Atlanticist, NATOSource
Bennett manages a number of dynamic initiatives dedicated to identifying and connecting the next generation of leaders in the Atlantic community and beyond. Currently, his focus is on launching the Millennium Fellowship, a global and cross-sectoral leadership program.
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INDEX BY KEYWORDS
African SecurityAbdoul Salam Bello | @as_bello Bronwyn Bruton | @BronwynBruton Ricardo Réne Larémont Kelsey Lilley | @KelseyDegen Robert Lloyd Chloë McGrath | @malawicoffee Constance Berry Newman J. Peter Pham | @ACAfricaCenter Gerard Prunier Ian Ralby | @ImRalby
AfghanistanJames B. Cunningham Malia K. Du Mont Beth Flores | @Bethivywhy Ahmed Humayun | @AhmedHumay Shuja Nawaz Maria J. Stephan | @MariaJStephan
Al-Shabaab
Rudolph Atallah | @RudyAtallah Bronwyn Bruton | @BronwynBruton
Al-Qaeda in the MaghrebRudolph Atallah | @RudyAtallah Robert Lloyd
Arab TransitionsGeneive Abdo | @AbdoGeneive Abdul Rahman AlAgeli | @AbdulRahmanLYF Salam Kawakibi | @salamkawakibi Mohsin Khan Ramzy Mardini | @RamzyMardini Tarek Radwan | @tradwan Jillian Schwedler | @DrJSchwedler
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Arms ControlMatthew Kroenig | @kroenig
AsiaRoger Cliff Malia K. Du Mont Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. | @JonHuntsman Ash Jain Tien-Chen Lee Robert A. Manning | @Rmanning4 HuiHui Ooi Vasundhara Sirnate | @vsirnate
BalkansSarah Bedenbaugh
Big DataPeter Haynes | @peterhaynes1 Ayesha Khanna | @ayeshakhanna1 Paul Saffo | @psaffo
BrazilAndrea Murta | @murta30 Peter Schechter | @PDSchechter Ricardo Sennes
CaucasusSabine Freizer | @SabineFreizer James J. Coyle
ChinaChris Brummer | @ChrisBrummerDr Roger Cliff Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. | @JonHuntsman Robert A. Manning | @Rmanning4 Jamie Metzl | @JamieMetzl Manjari Chatterjee Miller Miyeon Oh Olin L. Wethington Ali Wyne | @Ali_Wyne
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Civil SocietyAbdul Rahman AlAgeli | @AbdulRahmanLYF Bassem Bouguerra | @tunisien Sabine Freizer | @SabineFreizer Kelsey Lilley | @KelseyDegen Laura Linderman | @ljlinderman Mirette F. Mabrouk Brian Mefford | @meffkiev Nancy Messieh Andrea Murta | @murta30 Tuqa Nusairat Tarek Radwan | @tradwan Sarah El Sirgany | @Ssirgany
Climate ChangeRobert F. Ichord, Jr Heather Zichal
ColombiaMiguel Silva
Constitutional ReformYussef Auf | @YussefAuf Christopher Leins
CounterterrorismYelena Biberman Faysal Itani | @faysalitani Todd Rosenblum | @ToddRosenblum1
CubaJason Marczak | @jmarczak Peter Schechter | @PDSchechter
Cyber Policy and SecurityDmitri Alperovitch | @Alperovitch Tom Bossert | @TomBossert Alan Cohn | @fifteencharlie Joshua Corman l @joshcorman Kenneth Geers | @KennethGeers Peter Haynes | @peterhaynes1 Jason Healey | @Jason_Healey Quentin Hodgson
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Klara Jordan | @JordanKlara Ayesha Khanna | @ayeshakhanna1 Alexander Klimburg Franklin D. Kramer Jeff Moss Neal Pollard Gregory Rattray Katheryn E. Rosen Todd Rosenblum | @ToddRosenblum1 Jeff Schmidt | @JASjeffschmidt John B. Sheldon | @JohnBSheldon Megan Stifel | @MeganStifel Beau Woods l @beauwoods
Defense ContractorsSean McFate | @seanmcfate
Defense IndustryKate Brannen | @K8brannen Matt Brand Henrik Breitenbauch | @breitenbauch Steven Grundman | @stevegrundman James Hasik | @JamesHasik James Joyner | @DRJJoyner Martin Neill
Democracy and Human RightsRex Brynen | @RexBrynen Stephen Grand | @StephenRGrand Cecile Hellestveit H.A. Hellyer | @hahellyer Frederic C. Hof | @FredericHof Salam Kawakibi | @salamkawakibi Ricardo Réne Larémont Mirette F. Mabrouk Haykel Ben Mahfoudh Nancy Messieh Andrea Murta | @murta30 Constance Berry Newman Tuqa Nusairat HuiHui Ooi Duncan Pickard Jillian Schwedler | @DrJSchwedler
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DevelopmentFarrukh Iqbal Earl Anthony Wayne | @EAnthonyWayne
Digital Forensic Research & Open Source IntelligenceMaksymilian Czuperski | @MaksCzuperski Eliot Higgins | @EliotHiggins Ben Nimmo | @benimmo
EgyptYussef Auf | @YussefAuf Zack Gold | @ZLGold H.A. Hellyer | @hahellyer Mirette F. Mabrouk Nancy Messieh Tarek Radwan | @tradwan Sarah El Sirgany | @Ssirgany
Emerging Technologies in Defense and NatSecMathew J. Burrows Bharath Gopalaswamy | @ACSouthAsia Steven Grundman | @stevegrundman James Hasik | @JamesHasik
Energy Policy and SecurityDefne Arslan Daniel Bennett Coit “Chip” Blacker Matthew Bryza | @BryzaMatthew Ariel Cohen | @Dr_Ariel_Cohen Bud Coote Thomas Cunningham Peter Dean Charles Ellinas | @CharlesEllinas Diane Francis | @dianefrancis1 David L. Goldwyn Agnia Grigas | @AgniaGrigas Robert F. Ichord, Jr David Koranyi | @DavidKoranyi Annie Medaglia David A. Merkel Richard L. Morningstar | @ACGlobalEnergy David Mortlock | @mortlockdavid Miyeon Oh
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Friedbert Pfluger Cynthia Quarterman Ian Ralby | @ImRalby Alan Riley John M. Roberts Jennifer D. Sciubba | @profsciubba Amrita Sen Jean-Francois Seznec Brenda Shaffer Branko Terzic | @BrankoDuTerzic Harry Tzimitras | @h_tzimitras Sara Vakhshouri | @SVakhshouri Adnan Vatansever Heather Zichal
EntrepreneurshipDaniel Bennett Carles Castello-Catchot Aubrey Hruby | @AubreyHruby Jaana Remes | @JaanaRemes
EurasiaPinar Dost-Niyego David A. Merkel Alina Polyakova | @Alinasphere Brenda Shaffer Mark D. Simakovsky Marik String Ross Wilson
Europe
Sarah Bedenbaugh Maksymilian Czuperski | @MaksCzuperski David Ensor | @EnsorDavidB Evelyn Farkas | @EvelynNFarkas Mark D. Simakovsky Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilson
Europe’s EastRobert Nurick Daniel Vajdich | @DanielVajdich Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilson
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European UnionSarah Bedenbaugh Elisabeth Braw | @elisabethbraw Frances G. Burwell | @FranBurwell Maksymilian Czuperski | @MaksCzuperski Nicholas Dungan | @Nicholas_Dungan Jérémie Gallon Jeffrey Gedmin Michał Kobosko | @michalkobosko Erwan Lagadec | @erwanlagadec77 Richard L. Morningstar | @ACGlobalEnergy Ben Nimmo | @benimmo Fabrice Pothier | @FabricePothier Stanley Sloan | @srs2_
EurozoneAndrea Montanino | @MontaninoUSA Lorenzo Pace | @lfpace
Fiscal and Structural ReformAbdoul Salam Bello | @as_bello Julie Chon
FranceNicholas Dungan | @Nicholas_Dungan Jérémie Gallon
GenderCapricia Penavic Marshall Jennifer D. Sciubba | @profsciubba
GeneticsJamie Metzl | @JamieMetzl
GeorgiaLaura Linderman | @ljlinderman
GermanyFrederick Kempe | @FredKempe
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Global Business and EconomicsAnders Åslund | @anders_aslund Douglas J. Besharov | @DouglasBesharov Julie Chon Ariel Cohen | @Dr_Ariel_Cohen Salam Fayyad Diane Francis | @dianefrancis1 Arturo Franco | @arturofranco Farrukh Iqbal Andrea Montanino | @MontaninoUSA HuiHui Ooi Lorenzo Pace | @lfpace Jaana Remes | @JaanaRemes Alan Riley Dante Roscini Ricardo Sennes Jean-Francois Seznec Sara Vakhshouri | @SVakhshouri Olin L. Wethington
Global TrendsDaniel Bennett Mathew J. Burrows Carles Castello-Catchot Peter Engelke | @PeterEngelke1 Frederick Kempe | @FredKempe Jennifer D. Sciubba | @profsciubba Jonathan Silverthorne
GovernanceMohamed Eljarh | @Eljarh
GulfMona Alami | @monaalami Richard LeBaron | @RLeBaron Bilal Y. Saab | @BilalYSaab
HezbollahNicholas Blanford
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IndiaBharath Gopalaswamy | @ACSouthAsia Ahmed Humayun | @AhmedHumay Gaurav Kampani Manjari Chatterjee Miller Shuja Nawaz Vasundhara Sirnate | @vsirnate
InfrastructureAbdoul Salam Bello | @as_bello Aubrey Hruby | @AubreyHruby
InnovationDave Anthony Peter Engelke | @PeterEngelke1 Arturo Franco | @arturofranco Greg Lindsay | @Greg_Lindsay Jaana Remes | @JaanaRemes
International Financial InstitutionsDavid A. Merkel Andrea Montanino | @MontaninoUSA
International SecurityYelena Biberman Max Brooks | @MaxBrooksUKnews Matthew Bryza | @BryzaMatthew Roger Cliff August Cole | @august_cole Jon Dunne H.A. Hellyer | @hahellyer James Joyner | @DRJJoyner Gaurav Kampani Simona Kordosova Lightfoot | @SimonaLightfoot Greg Lindsay | @Greg_Lindsay Robert Lloyd Jan M. Lodal Patrick O’Reilly Fabrice Pothier | @FabricePothier John Raidt Jonathan Silverthorne Marik String Ali Wyne | @Ali_Wyne Claire Yorke | @ClaireYorke
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Internet of ThingsPeter Haynes | @peterhaynes1 Quentin Hodgson Ayesha Khanna | @ayeshakhanna1 Paul Saffo | @psaffo
IranBarbara Slavin | @barbaraslavin1 Sara Vakhshouri | @SVakhshouri
Iran Nuclear ProgramGeneive Abdo | @AbdoGeneive Matthew Kroenig | @kroenig Barbara Slavin | @barbaraslavin1
IraqRamzy Mardini | @RamzyMardini Nussaibah Younis | @Nussaibah
ItalyStefano Stefanini
JordanRamzy Mardini | @RamzyMardini
Latin AmericaJason Marczak | @jmarczak Andrea Murta | @murta30 Peter Schechter | @PDSchechter Miguel Silva
LebanonMona Alami | @monaalami
LibyaMohamed Eljarh | @Eljarh Fadel Lamen | @Fadellamen Karim Mezran | @MezranK Duncan Pickard
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Maritime SecurityKeith Detwiler Jon Dunne Steven Horrell | @StevenHorrell Magnus Nordenman | @MNordenman Harry Tzimitras | @h_tzimitras
MediaDavid Ensor | @EnsorDavidB Michał Kobosko | @michalkobosko
MercenariesSean McFate | @seanmcfate
MexicoArturo Franco | @arturofranco Peter Schechter | @PDSchechter
Mexico Energy ReformDavid L. Goldwyn
Middle East Policy and SecurityGeneive Abdo | @AbdoGeneive Abdul Rahman AlAgeli | @AbdulRahmanLYF Jessica Ashooh Dave Barno | @DWBarno76 Nicholas Blanford Rex Brynen | @RexBrynen Jasmine El-Gamal | @jasmineelgamal Salam Fayyad Zack Gold | @ZLGold Stephen Grand | @StephenRGrand Cecile Hellestveit Frederic C. Hof | @FredericHof Faysal Itani | @faysalitani Ash Jain Salam Kawakibi | @salamkawakibi Mohsin Khan Nabeel Khoury | @khoury_nabeel Fadel Lamen | @Fadellamen Richard LeBaron | @RLeBaron John Raidt John M. Roberts Bilal Y. Saab | @BilalYSaab
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Jillian Schwedler | @DrJSchwedler Aaron Stein | @aaronstein1 John Watts | @John_T_Watts Nussaibah Younis | @Nussaibah
Military AffairsDave Barno | @DWBarno76 Nora Bensahel | @norabensahel Keith Detwiler Isabelle François Jason Kirby | @RunKirbyRun1 Tien-Chen Lee Patrick O’Reilly Alexander Ward | @alexwardb
MoroccoKarim Mezran | @MezranK
NATO and its PartnersJorge Benitez | @NATOSource Elisabeth Braw | @elisabethbraw Matt Brand Henrik Breitenbauch | @breitenbauch Ian Brzezinski | @IanBrzezinski Keith Detwiler Isabelle François Paul R. S. Gebhard Jeffrey Gedmin Kenneth Geers | @KennethGeers Robbie Gramer | @RobbieGramer John E. Herbst | @JohnEdHerbst Steven Horrell | @StevenHorrell Klara Jordan | @JordanKlara Alexander Klimburg Simona Kordosova Lightfoot | @SimonaLightfoot Franklin D. Kramer Erwan Lagadec | @erwanlagadec77 Kathleen J. McInnis | @kjmcinnis1 Martin Neill Ben Nimmo | @benimmo Magnus Nordenman | @MNordenman Barry Pavel | @BarryPavel Fabrice Pothier | @FabricePothier Ian Ralby | @ImRalby Mark D. Simakovsky
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Stanley Sloan | @srs2_ Stefano Stefanini Marik String Daniel Vajdich | @DanielVajdich Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilson
Nontraditional ThreatsDave Anthony Yelena Biberman Max Brooks | @MaxBrooksUKnews Mathew J. Burrows
Nordic-Baltic SecurityHenrik Breitenbauch | @breitenbauch Magnus Nordenman | @MNordenman
North AfricaYussef Auf | @YussefAuf Ricardo Réne Larémont
North KoreaRobert A. Manning | @Rmanning4 Jamie Metzl | @JamieMetzl
PakistanAhmed Humayun | @AhmedHumay Shuja Nawaz
PolandMichał Kobosko | @michalkobosko
Political ReformMohamed Eljarh | @Eljarh Salam Kawakibi | @salamkawakibi Fadel Lamen | @Fadellamen Laura Linderman | @ljlinderman Constance Berry Newman Tuqa Nusairat Sarah El Sirgany | @Ssirgany
Religious ExtremismLawrence Pintak | @lpintak
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RussiaAnders Åslund | @anders_aslund Coit “Chip” Blacker Ariel Cohen | @Dr_Ariel_Cohen Evelyn Farkas | @EvelynNFarkas Agnia Grigas | @AgniaGrigas John E. Herbst | @JohnEdHerbst Eliot Higgins | @EliotHiggins David Mortlock | @mortlockdavid Robert Nurick Alina Polyakova | @Alinasphere Stefano Stefanini
Security Sector ReformBassem Bouguerra | @tunisien Christopher Leins Haykel Ben Mahfoudh Sean McFate | @seanmcfate
Space SecurityJohn B. Sheldon | @JohnBSheldon
SyriaMona Alami | @monaalami Jessica Ashooh Frederic C. Hof | @FredericHof Faysal Itani | @faysalitani Aaron Stein | @aaronstein1
TechnologyDave Anthony Carles Castello-Catchot Peter Dean Diane Francis | @dianefrancis1 Greg Lindsay | @Greg_Lindsay Martin Neill Cynthia Quarterman Paul Saffo | @psaffo
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TerrorismNicholas Blanford James J. Coyle Lawrence Pintak | @lpintak John Watts | @John_T_Watts Earl Anthony Wayne | @EAnthonyWayne
Trade Policy and International TradeJulie Chon Arturo Franco | @arturofranco Aubrey Hruby | @AubreyHruby Farrukh Iqbal Mohsin Khan Jason Marczak | @jmarczak Brian Mefford | @meffkiev Lorenzo Pace | @lfpace Dante Roscini Ricardo Sennes Olin L. Wethington
Transatlantic RelationsJorge Benitez | @NATOSource Matt Brand Elisabeth Braw | @elisabethbraw Frances G. Burwell | @FranBurwell Peter Engelke | @PeterEngelke1 Isabelle François Jérémie Gallon Paul R. S. Gebhard Jeffrey Gedmin Robbie Gramer | @RobbieGramer Adrian Karatnycky | @MyrmidonGroup Simona Kordosova Lightfoot | @SimonaLightfoot Erwan Lagadec | @erwanlagadec77 Stanley Sloan | @srs2_ Daniel Vajdich | @DanielVajdich
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)Chris Brummer | @ChrisBrummerDr Frances G. Burwell | @FranBurwell
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)Chris Brummer | @ChrisBrummerDr
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TunisiaBassem Bouguerra | @tunisien Haykel Ben Mahfoudh Karim Mezran | @MezranK Duncan Pickard
TurkeyDefne Arslan Matthew Bryza | @BryzaMatthew Pinar Dost-Niyego Sabine Freizer | @SabineFreizer Aaron Stein | @aaronstein1 Maria J. Stephan | @MariaJStephan Adnan Vatansever Ross Wilson
UkraineAnders Åslund | @anders_aslund Ian Brzezinski | @IanBrzezinski Irena Chalupa | @Khatynka James J. Coyle John E. Herbst | @JohnEdHerbst Adrian Karatnycky | @MyrmidonGroup Brian Mefford | @meffkiev Alina Polyakova | @Alinasphere
United KingdomNicholas Dungan | @Nicholas_Dungan Claire Yorke | @ClaireYorke
US Defense PolicyJorge Benitez | @NATOSource Nora Bensahel | @norabensahel Kate Brannen | @K8brannen Ian Brzezinski | @IanBrzezinski Daniel Y. Chiu | @DYCinWDC Malia K. Du Mont Jasmine El-Gamal | @jasmineelgamal Evelyn Farkas | @EvelynNFarkas Beth Flores | @Bethivywhy Robbie Gramer | @RobbieGramer Steven Grundman | @stevegrundman Chuck Hagel James Hasik | @JamesHasik
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Jason Kirby | @RunKirbyRun1 Alexander Klimburg Franklin D. Kramer Matthew Kroenig | @kroenig Christopher Leins Jan M. Lodal Kathleen J. McInnis | @kjmcinnis1 Robert Nurick Patrick O’Reilly Barry Pavel | @BarryPavel John Raidt Bilal Y. Saab | @BilalYSaab Jonathan Silverthorne John Watts | @John_T_Watts Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilson
US Foreign PolicyDave Barno | @DWBarno76 Coit “Chip” Blacker Nora Bensahel | @norabensahel Daniel Y. Chiu | @DYCinWDC August Cole | @august_cole James B. Cunningham Jon Dunne David Ensor | @EnsorDavidB Paul R. S. Gebhard Chuck Hagel Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. | @JonHuntsman Ash Jain James Joyner | @DRJJoyner Adrian Karatnycky | @MyrmidonGroup Frederick Kempe | @FredKempe Nabeel Khoury | @khoury_nabeel Richard LeBaron | @RLeBaron Jan M. Lodal Capricia Penavic Marshall J. Peter Pham | @ACAfricaCenter Lawrence Pintak | @lpintak Barbara Slavin | @barbaraslavin1 Maria J. Stephan | @MariaJStephan Harry Tzimitras | @h_tzimitras Ali Wyne | @Ali_Wyne Nussaibah Younis | @Nussaibah
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US Manufacturing PolicyDouglas J. Besharov | @DouglasBesharov
US National Security Policy and StrategyKate Brannen | @K8brannen Max Brooks | @MaxBrooksUKnews Daniel Y. Chiu | @DYCinWDC August Cole | @august_cole Beth Flores | @Bethivywhy Kenneth Geers | @KennethGeers Chuck Hagel Jason Kirby | @RunKirbyRun1 Kathleen J. McInnis | @kjmcinnis1 Pierre Noel Todd Rosenblum | @ToddRosenblum1 Alexander Ward | @alexwardb Damon Wilson | @DamonMacWilson
VenezuelaJason Marczak | @jmarczak
Violent ExtremismRudolph Atallah | @RudyAtallah Bronwyn Bruton | @BronwynBruton Jasmine El-Gamal | @jasmineelgamal Zack Gold | @ZLGold Steven Horrell | @StevenHorrell Barry Pavel | @BarryPavel J. Peter Pham | @ACAfricaCenter Gerard Prunier
Workforce DevelopmentDouglas J. Besharov | @DouglasBesharov
