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Experts

Portrait of Madiha Afzal, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy.

Madiha Afzal Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Marsin Alshamary Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Hady Amr, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution

Hady Amr Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Director - The Turkey Project

Pavel K. Baev Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Jeffrey Ball, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate

Jeffrey Ball Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Garrett Barker Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Commander - United States Coast Guard

Carlo Bastasin Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Mariana Budjeryn Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

Thomas J. Christensen Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Madelyn R. Creedon Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

John Culver Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Jonathan A. Czin Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies, Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

R. David Edelman Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Robert Einhorn Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

Salam Fayyad Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

Vanda Felbab-Brown Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Jeffrey Feltman John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Diana Fu Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Mary E. Gallagher Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Matthew Garvin Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Colonel - United States Air Force

Paul Gewirtz, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution

Paul Gewirtz Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law - Yale Law School, Director - Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School, Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

James Goldgeier Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Philip H. Gordon Sydney Stein, Jr. Scholar - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Sharan Grewal Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Samantha Gross, Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, The Brookings Institution

Samantha Gross Director - Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Anna Grzymała-Busse Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Daniel S. Hamilton Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Ryan Hass, Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Ryan Hass Director - John L. Thornton China Center, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies

Steven Heydemann Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Fiona Hill Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Jamie P. Horsley Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center - Yale Law School, Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Bruce Jones Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Robert Kagan Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Colin Kahl Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Mara Karlin Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Jaclyn A. Kerr Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology,

Patricia M. Kim Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

Kemal Kirişci Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project

Sarah Kreps Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Lynn Kuok Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies, Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Timothy Lea Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Deputy Intelligence Community Space Executive - Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Cheng Li Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Kenneth G. Lieberthal Senior Fellow Emeritus - Foreign Policy

Adam P. Liff Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Yingyi Ma Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Tanvi Madan Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Tracy Ann Maese Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Colonel - United States Marine Corps

Suzanne Maloney Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Anand Menon Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Jabari Miller Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Colonel - United States Army

Manuel Muñiz Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Alexander Noyes Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy

Evan Osnos Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Margaret M. Pearson Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government (GOVT).

Thomas Pepinsky Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Peter Petri, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution

Peter A. Petri Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Ted Piccone Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Steven Pifer Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

Itamar Rabinovich Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

Douglas A. Rediker Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Center on the United States and Europe

Evans J.R. Revere Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Bruce Riedel Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Shelley Rigger Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Lori Robinson Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Joshua Rovner Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Sophie Rutenbar Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Natalie Sambhi Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Jaganath Sankaran Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Tomohiro Sato Federal Executive Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Lieutenant Colonel - Japan Air Self-Defense Force

Elizabeth N. Saunders Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Pavneet Singh Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Melanie W. Sisson Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Mireya Solís Director - Center for Asia Policy Studies, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies

Jeannie Sowers Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Tom Stefanick, Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy, Security and Strategy, The Brookings Institution

Tom Stefanick Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Constanze Stelzenmüller Director - Center on the United States and Europe, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations

Angela Stent Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

Todd Stern, Senior Fellow, Cross-Brookings Initiative on Climate and Energy, The Brookings Institution

Todd Stern Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Jonathan Stromseth, Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

Jonathan Stromseth Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center

Yun Sun Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, Africa Growth Initiative

Strobe Talbott Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

Caitlin Talmadge Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Shibley Telhami Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Susan A. Thornton Senior Fellow - Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School, Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Rahul Tongia Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Tara Varma Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

David Victor, Co-Chair, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

David G. Victor Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Joanne Wallis Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Joshua T. White Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Stephanie T. Williams Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Valerie Wirtschafter Fellow - Foreign Policy, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative

Thomas Wright Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Constantino Xavier Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies

Lan Xue Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center

Andrew Yeo Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies

Kelebogile Zvobgo Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Staff

Office of the Vice President

Suzanne Maloney Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Andrew Moffatt Managing Director - Foreign Policy

Emilie Kimball Assistant Director of Event Strategy - Foreign Policy

Mallika Yadwad Senior Administrative and Research Assistant to the Vice President - Foreign Policy

Administration and finance

Kevin Scott Managing Director of Administration - Foreign Policy

Margaret Humenay Director of Finance - Foreign Policy

Nyima Gardner Senior Program Manager - Foreign Policy

Marissa Gouker Senior Finance Coordinator - Foreign Policy

Peter Toto Assistant Director of Finance - Foreign Policy

Communications

Alexandra Dimsdale Director of Communications - Foreign Policy

Adam Lammon Senior Publications Editor - Foreign Policy

Virginia Schaus Communications Coordinator - Foreign Policy

Rachel Slattery Website and Digital Design Manager - Foreign Policy

Development

Beth Keller Senior Director of Development - Foreign Policy

Huzan Balay Development Manager - Foreign Policy

Hannah N. White Development Officer - Foreign Policy

Center for Asia Policy Studies

Jennifer Mason Associate Director - Center for Asia Policy Studies

Adrien Chorn Senior Research Assistant - Center for Asia Policy Studies

Hanna Foreman Senior Research Assistant - Center for Asia Policy Studies

Ariqa Herrera Senior Research Assistant - Center for Asia Policy Studies

Center for Middle East Policy

Kevin Huggard Senior Research Assistant - Center for Middle East Policy

Center on the United States and Europe

Ted Reinert Associate Director - Center on the United States and Europe

Caroline Grassmuck Senior Center Coordinator - Center on the United States and Europe

Sophie Roehse Senior Research Assistant - Center on the United States and Europe

Energy Security and Climate Initiative

Louison Sall Senior Research Assistant - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Energy Security and Climate Initiative

John L. Thornton China Center

Ryan McElveen Associate Director - John L. Thornton China Center

Allie Matthias Research Assistant - John L. Thornton China Center

Joyce Yang Research Assistant - John L. Thornton China Center

Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Natalie Britton Director of Operations - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Sophia Hart Senior Research Assistant - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Diana Paz García Senior Research Assistant - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Alejandra Rocha Senior Research Assistant - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Louison Sall Senior Research Assistant - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Energy Security and Climate Initiative