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Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
Former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, covering India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for almost five years. Studying detention issues and writing about her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Afghan and Pakistan government policy; NATO in Afghanistan; Pakistan-India relations; Kashmir.
Phone: +1.212.434.9853
Email: kbarker@cfr.org
Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.
U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.
Phone: +1-202-509-8476
Email: sbiddle@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Author of the forthcoming book Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Women and Reform in the Middle East (Random House). Recently coauthored Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security. Director of CFR's Women and Foreign Policy program.
Economic development; gender issues in the Middle East and Southwest Asia; foreign aid; microfinance; education reform in the Middle East.
Phone: +1-212-434-9771
Email: icoleman@cfr.org
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia
Former State Department policy planning staff member. Current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
South Asia; U.S. foreign policy; international security; international relations theory.
Phone: +1-202-509-8441
Email: dmarkey@cfr.org
Adjunct Senior Fellow
Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, former member of State Department policy planning staff handling Northern Ireland peace process, Iran, Syria, and relations with the Muslim world.
U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy; counterinsurgency; nation-building; the geopolitics of energy; Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
Phone: +1.617.496.4308
Email: Meghan_OSullivan@hks.harvard.edu
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
Award-winning coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack. Former director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats at the National Security Council. Current work examines the consequences of the American intervention in Iraq, Muslim/non-Muslim relations, and the role of religion in U.S. foreign policy.
U.S. security policy in the Middle East and South Asia; Middle East politics; Palestinian-Israeli relations; transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism; terrorism and counterterrorism; intelligence reform.
Phone: +1.202.509.8437
Email: ssimon@cfr.org
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James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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