Jacob Lees Weiss is an analyst specializing in the MENA region at Healix International and HX global. He holds an MA in Contemporary Arabic Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prior to working at Healix, he spent time volunteering for NGOs and studying in Algeria and Egypt.
Learn MoreIdo Levy is an associate fellow working with the Institute’s Military and Security Studies Program. He holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. His thesis focused on the ideologies and lethality rates of terrorist organizations with a focus on jihadist groups. In 2015, Levy studied Arabic at Givat
Learn MoreThomas Carothers is the senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity he oversees all of the research programs at Carnegie. He also directs the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program and carries out research and writing on democracy-related issues. Carothers is a leading authority on international support for
Learn More” shape=”square”] Benjamin Press is a research assistant in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program.
Learn MoreAllison Nour leads the firm’s Middle East Practice, providing strategic advisory and business development support to leading companies with activities in the Middle East, and to regionally-based companies working to grow their business in global markets. She advises clients across a range of sectors including aerospace and defense, healthcare, tech, energy, and construction. From 2018–2020...
Learn MoreDavid Schenker is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. Confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2019, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs through January 2021. In that capacity, he was the principal Middle East advisor to the secretary of state and the senior official overseeing the conduct of
Learn MoreClare is POMED’s Communications Associate. Previously, she worked as the Regional Policy Intern for POMED. She has also worked as a data researcher for the Chicago Project on Security and Threats and as a politics reporter for the Des Moines Register. She graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago.
Learn MoreIbrahim Al-Assil is a Middle East analyst and commentator. He is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East, regional dynamics and cooperation, and political economy. Al-Assil is the founder and managing partner of Dynamics Advisory, a consulting firm that provides political risk
Learn MoreEmiliano Alessandri has managed the Mediterranean Partnership portfolio of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) since 2013. He is an expert on Euro-Mediterranean relations with a focus on North Africa. He has also published widely on Turkey. His research focuses on US-European approaches to the region and prospects for multilateral security dialogue.
Learn MoreProfessional journalist since 1980. He worked on world news for “Il Tempo” and, from ’87 to today, for the “Corriere della Sera” as vice foreign editor and then as vice head of the Foreign News and the department of chronicles.
Learn MoreProf. Michaël Tanchum teaches international relations of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Navarra, Spain and is a senior fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Studies (AIES). He also holds fellow positions at the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University, Israel, and at
Learn MoreDr. Gawdat Bahgat is a professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington DC. He is the author of 11 books on the Middle East.
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