Colin Stokes

The director of communications for the non-profit Citizen Schools, Colin Stokes thinks deeply about the media he shares with his two young children.

Anil Gupta

Leading Expert on Strategy, Globalization & Emerging Markets

Marc Lynch

Director, Institute for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor

Toni G. Verstandig

Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute

Ibrahim Saif

A resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Joel Beinin

Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University

Flynt Leverett

Flynt Leverett is an expert on the Middle East and international energy issues with insider credentials and a willingness to be outspoken.

Paul Salem

Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon

Elie Rekhess

Professor Rekhess (Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University) is a leading historian of the contemporary Middle East.

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Senior fellow and the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings

Dov Waxman

Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies at Northeastern University. Expert on Middle East Politics, US-Middle East Policy, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and Israeli Politics and Foreign Policy.

Robert M. Danin

Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies

Asaf Romirowsky

Middle East analyst Asaf Romirowsky is an adjunct scholar at the Foundation for Defense for Democracies, and the Middle East Forum.

Dr. Azzedine Layachi

Professor of Government and Politics St. John’s University

Yezid Sayigh

Senior Associate At The Carnegie Middle East Center In Beirut

Scott Lasensky

Middle East Expert, United States Institute of Peace

Henry Hogger

Former British Ambassador to Syria

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University

Sanam Vakil

Adjunct Professor, Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Judith Barnett

Ms. Barnett At the Department of Commerce, Ms. Barnett assisted numerous US companies in fostering trade and investment throughout the world.

Hillary Leverett

CEO

Dr. Richard Bulliet

Professor of History, Middle East Institute, Columbia University

Philip Gordon

Former Special Assistant to the President on the Middle East and the Gulf Region

Martin Indyk

Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy at The Council on Foreign Relations in New York

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Danielle Pletka

Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies

Suzanne Maloney

Senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution

Katherine Wilkens

The deputy director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

Salman Shaikh

Director of the Brookings Doha Center and fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Nabil Fahmy

Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs, Chair of James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Middle East Project, American University in Cairo; Ambassador at Large, Egyptian Foreign Ministry

Joseph Krauss

Middle East Correspondent for Associated Press