PARTICIPANTS:



CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS:

Adam Mausner

Research Associate and Program Manager

Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Adam Mausner is research associate and program manager for the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. He is responsible for research onIsraeli military developments, politico-military affairs in Israel and the Levant, American and Israeli strategic competition with Iran, Iranian influence in Iraq, the US defense budget, and the development of the Iraqi and Afghan security forces. The Burke Chair has published dozens of reports and presentations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Arab-Israeli balance, and the strategic balance between Israel and Iran. Mausner has contributed to virtually all of these since 2007. Mausner is the primary researcher at the Burke chair for graphics related to Israel and the surrounding region. Mausner has visited Israel a number of times, including during the 2006 Lebanon War.

Before joining CSIS, he worked for the Center for Security Studies, researching cyber-security issues and helping to create a database of international treaties. He also worked for Columbia International Affairs Online as an assistant editor and acting executive editor. Mr. Mausner received a B.A in political science from Vassar College and studied at the King’s College London War Studies Department in 2002. He received a master’s degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University in 2008.

Jeff Smith

Kraemer Strategy Fellow

American Foreign Policy Council

Jeff is the Kraemer Strategy Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) and editor of AFPC's Eurasia Security Watch and South Asia Security Monitor bulletins. He is also the Project Coordinator and Managing Editor of the World Almanac of Islamism. Jeff has given briefings at the Pentagon and to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff and guest lectured on national security issues at the graduate and undergraduate level.His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal Asia, Defense News, Jane's Intelligence Review, The Diplomat, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Asia Times, The Hindu, and many other foreign policy publications. His interviews and commentary can be seen on Fox News, the Voice of America, the Boston Globe, al-Hurra, Agence France-Presse, ITV, and Pakistan's Dawn News, as well as several local and regional radio programs. He is also the chair of the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy South Asia Discussion Group. Smith has an MPIA from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Dr. Andrew Exum

Senior Fellow

Center for a New American Security

Andrew Exum is a Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security. From 2000 until 2004, Exum served on active duty in the U.S. Army. He led a platoon of light infantry in Kuwait and Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and later led a platoon of Army Rangers in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Exum returned to Afghanistan in 2009 to serve as an advisor to Gen. Stanley McChrystal and subsequently participated in an assessment conducted for Gen. David Petraeus in 2010. Exum served as a subject matter expert on Egypt and the Levant for the 2008-2009 CENTCOM Assessment Team.

Exum earned a B.A. in classics and English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and received the Cane Award upon graduation. He later earned an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in War Studies from the University of London. Exum has also formally studied in Cairo, Paris and Tangier. Exum is the author of one book, “This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story from the Frontlines of the War on Terror” (Gotham, 2004), which won a Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation, and has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Guardian and many other newspapers. Recent publications of note include a contribution to the New York Times best-selling e-book Beyond Bin Laden (Random House, 2011) and an essay on Afghanistan in the French security studies journal Politique étrangère.

While on a one-year fellowship at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Exum started a blog on small wars and insurgencies, Abu Muqawama, that he continues to edit at CNAS. Exum was also named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 voices in foreign policy on Twitter.

James Kirchick

Writer-at-large

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

James Kirchick is writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Prague and Washington, and has reported from Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucuses. A contributing editor to the New Republic, he writes frequently for newspapers including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post, as well as magazines such as the Columbia Journalism Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, OUT, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and Commentary. Kirchick has worked as a reporter for the New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and the Hill and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner.

Patrick Poole

Investigative Reporter

Pajamas Media

Patrick Poole is a regular contributor to Pajamas Media, and an anti-terrorism consultant to law enforcement and the military. (More bio to follow)

Josiane Gabel

Executive Officer to the President and CEO

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Josie Gabel is executive officer to the president of CSIS, John Hamre. Prior to holding this position, she was a research associate with the CSIS Defense and National Security Group, where she focused on global nuclear disarmament studies. In 2008–2009, she worked for former U.S. secretary of defense William Cohen at the Cohen Group. She holds a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and a M.A. in international relations from Yale University.

Lindsey Ross

Policy Analyst

American Security Project

Lindsey Ross is a policy analyst at the American Security Project focused on climate and energy security.  Prior to joining ASP, Ms. Ross focused on homeland security issues at the Center for American Progress.  She has also spent time abroad working for the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel.  Ms. Ross holds a bachelors degree from Hofstra University.

POTENTIALS:

Reuel Geretch – Foundation for the Defense of Democracy

Reuel Marc Gerecht is a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He focuses on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, terrorism, and intelligence.

Mr. Gerecht is the author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) and The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy (AEI Press, 2004). He is a contributing editor for The Weekly Standard and a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications.

He was previously a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the director of the Middle East Initiative at the Project for the New American Century.  Earlier, he served as a specialist at the CIA's Directorate of Operations.

Toby is giving the following names a heads up and will advise Ida when she has, and Ida will send these invitations over the weekend:

Rob Townley is a former national intelligence agent who has had numerous overseas combat assignments in Sub-Saharan and East Africa, Southwest Asia, the Near East and Eastern Europe. He served in a variety of positions including targeting analyst, threat warning watch supervisor, collection manager, interrogator, intelligence collector, counterintelligence agent, and surveillance team chief. He is currently Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Doc-to-Dock, a non-profit foundation providing expeditionary medical support and conflict management services in 16 countries across Africa.

Michael Gallagher is a Doctoral candidate in Government & International Relations at Georgetown University. He was previously a Fellow in United States Marine Corps and a Junior Officer for the Strategic Intelligence Program. Additionally, he was a Counterintelligence Office in Qatar for the United States Marine Corps.

We have been in touch and are waiting to hear back for recommendations from:

Steven Goodwin – National Defense University

Eliot Cohen - SAIS

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