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Each expert’s bio page contains his or her contact information, professional and educational history, links to publications and current research, a downloadable one-page biographical narrative, and a high-definition photo.
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
Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow
Former Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times. Latest book, The Closing of the American Border, examines U.S. visa and border policies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
U.S. economic competitiveness, U.S. trade policy, visa and immigration policy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8474
Email: ealden@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Director for external relations for the International Monetary Fund. Former economics and finance reporter for the Washington Post. Currently directing a roundtable series on global economics.
Financial crises management; foreign exchange markets; international economics; IMF and the World Bank; Japan; Argentina.
Phone: +1-202-509-8444
Email: prudegeair@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
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Partner at Arnold & Porter, LLP. Former legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State and National Security Council. Currently directing a roundtable series on international and national security law.
International law and international criminal justice; international humanitarian law and human rights law; international criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court; treaty law; international and domestic law applicable to counterterrorism operations, including detention policies; intelligence law and covert action; U.S. national security organization and process; U.S. national security statutes.
Phone: +1.202.942.6599
Email: John.Bellinger@aporter.com
Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Author of Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning and professor at Columbia University. Commissioner to the National Commission on Terrorism and former staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Current work examines the U.S. national security agenda.
Intelligence and U.S. defense policy; military strategy; political and military intelligence; international conflict; terrorism.
Phone: +1-212-854-7325
Email: rkb4@columbia.edu
Senior Fellow for International Economics
Author of In Defense of Globalization, special adviser to the UN and the World Trade Organization, and professor of economics at Columbia University. Latest book, Termites in the Trading System, discusses the deleterious effects of preferential trade agreements.
International trade; economic policy reforms; immigration.
Phone: +1-212-434-9667
Email: jbhagwati@cfr.org
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
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
Award-winning author and former editorial editor for The Wall Street Journal. Author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. Currently writing a history of guerrilla warfare.
Defense policy; defense budget; proliferation; nation-building and peacekeeping; democracy and human rights; U.S. grand strategy; national security; military technology; military history; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism and guerilla warfare; terrorism; media.
Phone: +1.212.434.9619
Email: mboot@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
International investment banker, advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Conducts research on business and transatlantic relations.
International business; finance and economics; media and communications; technology and foreign policy.
Phone: +1.212.292.4255
Email: dbraunschvig@cfr.org
Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies
Ambassador to Nigeria, 2004-2007. Political Coounselor at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria during South Africa’s first non-racial elections, 1994. Career Foreign Service Officer, 1975-2007. Currently writing a book on contemporary Nigeria.
Nigeria, South Africa, U.S.policy toward Africa. HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Phone: +1.212.434.9675
Email: jcampbell@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies
Internationally renowned expert on the Chinese legal system and professor at NYU School of Law. Current work examines the role of law in Asian countries.
Legal and business transactions in Asia; international relations of East Asia; international law.
Phone: +1-212-434-9635
Email: jcohen@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 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 for Business and Foreign Policy
A corporate executive with extensive experience in high technology and international political economy. Currently directing a roundtable series on technology, innovation, and American primacy.
American economic competitiveness; technological innovation and foreign policy.
Phone: +1-212-434-9750
Email: jdougherty@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Economics
Former deputy director of the Asia and Pacific department at the International Monetary Fund. Author of the Council Special Report, Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis.
International economics and finance; International Monetary Fund; China.
Email: sdunaway@cfr.org
C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies
Award-winning author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China’s Future. Currently writing a book on the implications of China’s global quest for natural resources.
Chinese domestic and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; global environmental issues.
Phone: +1-212-434-9641
Email: eeconomy@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for East, Central, and South Asia
Former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the policy planning staff for East Asia. Author of books on China. Now writing a book on the reemergence of Asia as an integrated strategic space and the global implications of the rise of Asian power.
China, India, Central Asia, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia; energy, Caspian oil and gas; China and India as emerging global powers; economic integration in East, Central, and South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; new global and Asian regional architecture.
Phone: +1.202.509.8528
Email: efeigenbaum@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
Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology
Recipient of the Robert S. Landauer Memorial Lecturer Award for outstanding scientific achievement toward improving the security of radioactive sources. Author of the Council Special Report Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks and director of the Council Special Report China, Space Weapons, and U.S. Security.
Nuclear nonproliferation; nuclear and radiological terrorism; prevention and response; U.S. and international nuclear policies; arms control, climate change, energy policy, and nuclear energy.
Phone: +1-202-509-8460
Email: cferguson@cfr.org
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Law (11/17): Steven Simon writes in favor of trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York federal courts, in the New York Times.
Israel (11/16): Steven Cook asks if Palestinian leadership is going to use violence against Israel to strengthen domestic support, in The New Republic.Terrorism (11/15): Thomas Lippman reviews book written by Osama bin Laden’s first wife and son, in the Washington Post.Japan (11/12): Sheila Smith writes on Obama's trip to Asia, in the Washington Post.Nigeria (11/12): John Campbell considers efforts to reform Nigeria's oil and gas industry, on the GlobalPost.
History (11/12): Ray Takeyh considers Vietnam’s lesson in Afghanistan, in the Boston Globe.
Pakistan (11/12): Daniel Markey assesses Pakistani partnerships with the U.S., in the National Bureau of Asian Research.
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