Project Chairs*

Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
Vice-Chairman, Hills & Company; Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, Israel and other nations

Gary Sick
Senior research scholar at Columbia University SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of international affairs at SIPA

Executive Director

Richard W. Parker
Professor, University of Connecticut Law School
Founder and Director
American Foreign Policy Project

Expert Contributors*

Ali Banuazizi
Professor of Political Science and Director, Islamic Civilization & Societies Program, Boston College

Juan Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History
University of Michigan

Peter Crail
Nonproliferation analyst
Arms Control Association

Rola el-Husseini (site author)
Assistant Professor
Bush School of Government and Public Service
Texas A&M University

Farideh Farhi (site author)
Independent Researcher
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
U. of Hawai'i-Manoa

Harold Feiveson
Senior Research Policy Scientist
Program on Science and Global Security
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Int’l  Affairs (WWS)
Princeton University

Geoffrey Forden
Research Associate
Program on Science, Technology and Society
Massachussetts Institute of Technology

Col. Sam Gardiner (ret)
US Air Force (retired)

Philip Giraldi (site author)
Former CIA counter-terrorism specialist

Farhad Kazemi
Professor of Politics and Middle Eastern Studies
New York University

Stephen Kinzer
Author and award-winning foreign correspondent

Mohsen Milani
Professor of Politics and Chair
Department of Government and International Affairs
University of South Florida

Amb. William Miller
Senior Fellow
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Emile Nakhleh
Retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer &
Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program
Directorate of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency

Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of both International Relations and Anthropology
Boston University

Trita Parsi
Award-winning author & President
National Iranian-American Council

Barnett Rubin (site author)
Director of Studies and Senior Fellow
Center on International Cooperation
New York University
Former special advisor for Afghanistan
UN Special Representative of the Secretary General

Gary Sick
Senior Research Scholar
SIPA's Middle East Institute
Columbia University

John Tirman
Executive Director & Principal Research Scientist
Center for International Studies
Massachussetts Institute of Technology

James Walsh
Research Associate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Note: We also would like to acknowledge several other auditors and editors who made substantial contributions to this project but who for reasons of professional affiliation have asked not to be named.)

Staff

Web Support:

Ziv Gil, Website Designer
Adam Rasmussen, Webmaster

Research Assistants:

Asher Berman
Jacob Poushter
Evan Ream
Katayoun Sadeghi
Leslie Schaefer

Financial sponsors:

ConnectUS Fund
Ploughshare Fund
Individual Donors

*Disclaimer

The contents of this site reflect the input of a large group of experts with diverse knowledge, experience and affiliations.  The views expressed on this site do not reflect the position of any organization with which these experts may be affiliated.  Also, while all members strongly support the general policy thrust and judgments reflected on this site, they may not necessarily all concur with every specific assertion or recommendation contained therein.