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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Daniel L. Byman
Daniel Byman focuses on counterterrorism and Middle East security. He also directs Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies.
See also: Kenneth M. Pollack, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Bruce O. Riedel, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Navtej Dhillon
Navtej Dhillon is a fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution and director of the Middle East Youth Initiative.
See also: Tarik Yousef, co-editor, A Generation in Waiting: Youth Inclusion in the Middle East
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Richard N. Haass
Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Until June 2003 he was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Previously, Haass was vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was also special assistant to President George H. W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, 1989-93. He is the author or editor of ten books in American foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course.
See also: Martin S. Indyk, co-author, Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Martin S. Indyk
Martin Indyk is acting vice president and director of Foreign Policy at Brookings. A former ambassador to Israel and assistant secretary of state for near east affairs during the Clinton administration, he currently focuses on the Clinton administration’s diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
See also: Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Bruce O. Riedel, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
See also: Richard N. Haass, co-author, Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Nikki R. Keddie
Nikki R. Keddie (Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture
and Cultural Politics) is professor emerita of history at UCLA and
the author of many books, including Women in Middle Eastern History and Iran and the Muslim World.
Contact
Publicist:
Rachael Mann,
University of Washington Press
Email: remann at u.washington.edu
Phone: 206-221-4995
John W. Limbert
John W. Limbert was appointed Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at the U.S. Naval Academy in August 2006 after a 33-year career in the United States Foreign Service. He was president of the American Foreign Service Association (2003-05) and ambassador to Mauritania (2000-03). Ambassador Limbert holds the Department of State’s highest award—the Distinguished Service Award—and the Award for Valor, which he received in 1981 after fourteen months as a hostage in Iran. He has a PhD from Harvard University in history and Middle Eastern studies and has taught in Iranian high schools and at the University of Shiraz. He has written numerous articles on Middle Eastern subjects and has authored Iran: At War with History and Shiraz in the Age of Hafez.
Contact
Publicist: Meaghan Pierannunzi, United States Institute of Peace Press
Email: mpierannunzi@usip.org
Phone: 202-429-4736
Suzanne Maloney
Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues. Maloney recently published a book titled Iran's Long Reach: Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008).
See also: Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Bruce O. Riedel, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Michael E. O'Hanlon
Michael O’Hanlon specializes in U.S. national security policy. He is senior author of the Iraq Index. A former defense budget analyst who advised members of Congress on military spending, he specializes in Iraq, North Korea, homeland security, the use of military force and other defense issues. He has written a number of books, including Budgeting for Hard Power (Brookings, 2009).
See also: Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, and Bruce O. Riedel, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Kenneth M. Pollack
Kenneth Pollack is an expert on national security, military affairs and the Persian Gulf. He was Director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst. He is the author of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East (Random House, 2008).
See also: Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Bruce O. Riedel, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Bruce Riedel
A former CIA officer, Bruce Riedel focuses on political transition, terrorism and conflict resolution. He was a senior advisor to three U.S. presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues. At the request of President Obama he chaired an interagency review of policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan for the White House that was completed in March 2009.
See also: Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Martin S. Indyk, Suzanne Maloney, and Michael E. O'Hanlon, co-authors, Which Path to Persia?
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Tarik Yousef
Tarik Yousef is dean of the Dubai School of Government and nonresident senior fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings.
See also: Navtej Dhillon, co-editor, A Generation in Waiting: Youth Inclusion in the Middle East
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
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