Media Kit: Renew Diplomacy in the Middle East

Kenneth M. Pollack   

Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Ken 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.

Michael E. O'Hanlon   

Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

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.

In August 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's nomination of Carlos Pascual as U.S. ambassador to Mexico. He was vice president and director of Foreign Policy at Brookings from 2006 to 2009.

Suzanne Maloney   

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

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.

Tamara Cofman Wittes   

In November 2009, Tamara Cofman Wittes became deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. Department of State. She was at Brookings from 2003 to 2009.

Elizabeth Ferris   

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

As co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Beth Ferris focuses on the international community’s response to humanitarian crises, with a particular emphasis on the human rights of internally displaced persons.