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Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Israel-Palestinian affairs, democracy promotion, human rights policy, U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8472
Email: estein@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics.
Phone: +1.212.998.3613
Email: mbazzi@cfr.org
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.
Phone: +1-202-509-8476
Email: sbiddle@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR's Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771
Email: icoleman@cfr.org
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on Egyptian politics and the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Phone: +1.202.509.8620
Email: scook@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Email: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Pulitzer Prize-winner, former correspondent for the New York Times, and senior official in State and Defense Departments; expert on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Author of the new book Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, March 2009).
U.S. foreign policy; national security; Russia; Persian Gulf.
Phone: +1-212-434-9742; for all media requests call +1-212-434-9460
Email: JZelmati@cfr.org
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Former State Department director of policy planning and lead U.S. official on Afghanistan and Northern Ireland (2001 - 2003), and principal Middle East adviser to President George H.W. Bush (1989 - 1993). Author or editor of eleven books on U.S. foreign policy, including War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars.
U.S. foreign policy; international security; globalization; Asia; Middle East
Phone: +1-212-434-9543; for all media requests, contact Lisa Shields at +1-212-434-9888 or sdoolin@cfr.org
Email: president@cfr.org
Colonel Bjarne M. Iverson, USA
Military Fellow, U.S. Army
Engineer and Middle East foreign area officer. Most recent tour as executive officer to General David H. Petraeus during his command of Multi-National Force - Iraq and U.S. Central Command.
Middle East; military strategy and conduct of war in Iraq; counterinsurgency and counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan, Iraq; Arabic language.
Phone: +1.212.434.9493
Email: biverson@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author and journalist specializing in Middle East affairs and Islam. Currently working on a book about the future of Saudi Arabia and its implications for the United States.
Middle East history and politics; U.S. relations with Arab world; history and economy of Saudi Arabia; nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
Phone: +1.202.363.6796
Email: tlippman@cfr.org
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Award-winning author of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. Author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, released in October 2007. Author of a blog at The American Interest.
U.S. foreign policy; international political economy; domestic politics; religion and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9548
Email: wmead@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.
U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy; counterinsurgency; nation-building; the geopolitics of energy; Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Phone: +1.617.496.4308
Email: Meghan_OSullivan@hks.harvard.edu
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former foreign policy advisor in the administration of George W. Bush and senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; previous foreign policy and communications aide in the U.S. Senate. Currently a founding partner of Rosemont Capital and author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.
Middle East and Persian Gulf geopolitics, security, and economics; Israeli-Palestinian relations; Iraq; nation-building; post-conflict stabilization; role of foreign policy issues in domestic U.S. politics; media coverage of war; U.S. public diplomacy.
Phone: +1.212.933.9973
Email: dsenor@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Award-winning coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack. Former director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats at the National Security Council. Current work examines the consequences of the American intervention in Iraq, Muslim/non-Muslim relations, and the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. security policy in the Middle East and South Asia; Middle East politics; Palestinian-Israeli relations; transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism; terrorism and counterterrorism; intelligence reform.
Phone: +1.202.509.8437
Email: ssimon@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of The Guardians of the Revolution: Iran's Approach to the World (Oxford University Press, May 2009). Served as senior adviser to the special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest Asia at the U.S. Department of State.
Iran; Persian Gulf and U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8432
Email: rtakeyh@cfr.org
Cyrus Vance Fellow for Diplomatic Studies
Former U.S. Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem from 2005 to 2009. In over twenty five years with the Department of State, he served in the Middle East and Europe and has been an active participant in Middle East peace efforts dating back to the 1991 Madrid Conference.
U.S. policy in the Middle East; Israeli and Palestinian affairs; U.S. foreign policy; international economics policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8436
Email: jwalles@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Former senior director for democracy and human rights, senior director for the Near East, and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. Former assistant secretary of state for UN affairs, human rights, and Latin America in the Reagan administration.
U.S. policy in the Middle East, Israel-Palestinian affairs, democracy promotion, human rights policy, U.S. foreign policy.
Phone: +1.202.509.8472
Email: estein@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Journalism professor at New York University. Former Middle East bureau chief at Newsday. Currently working on a project about Hezbollah and the Shiite community in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Islamic militancy, Shiite politics.
Phone: +1.212.998.3613
Email: mbazzi@cfr.org
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Author of Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Directed the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. policy toward reform in the Arab world. Currently writing a book on Egyptian politics and the future of U.S.-Egypt relations.
Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.
Phone: +1.202.509.8620
Email: scook@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Professor of law at Harvard University. Author of After Jihad, What We Owe Iraq, and Divided by God. Former senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, released in April 2008.
Relationship between law and religion in both the Western and Middle Eastern context; Middle East politics; North Africa; Islamic constitutional thought.
Email: noah_feldman@harvard.edu
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For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
jlindsay@cfr.org
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Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
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