Dr. Roby Barrett

• Area of Expertise: Iran, Iraq, Gulf Security
• President, C.COMM, Inc. (1993-present)
• Senior Fellow, Joint Special Operations University (2008-present)

Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi

• Area of Expertise: Iran
• Founder & director of Middle Eastern Studies program at Syracuse University; associate professor of Political Science
• Editor of the "Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East" book series and Book Review editor for the "International Journal of Middle East Studies"

Dr. John Calabrese

• Area of Expertise: Central Asia, Iran, Asian-Middle East Policy
• Currently teaches US Foreign Policy at American University
• Previously held teaching positions in government and politics at Richmond College in Surrey, UK, the University of Kansas and Bowdoin College

Dr. Herman Franssen

• Area of Expertise: Energy, Oil
• President, International Energy Associates, Inc.
• Senior Economic Advisor to the Minister of Petroleum and Minerals of the Sultanate of Oman (1985-1996)

Dr. Syed Farooq Hasnat

• Area of Expertise: Pakistan, Regional Security
• Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan (2000-2004)
• Former Head of the Middle Eastern section of the Islamabad Institute of Strategic Studies

Dr. Zubair Iqbal

• Area of Expertise: Pakistan, The Gulf, Gulf Economics
• Held multiple postings at the International Monetary Fund (1972-2007), including policy development for the Middle East and Central Asia Department
• Lecturer in Economics at Government College in Lahore, Pakistan

Mr. Allen Keiswetter

• Area of Expertise: The Gulf, Islam
  
• Senior Advisor to US Delegation to the UN General Assembly (2003)
• Advisor to US Mission on Middle East issues before Security Council and General Assembly (2003)

Dr. Trita Parsi

• Area of Expertise: Iran, Israel
• Adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
• Advisor to Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH18) on Middle East issues
• Co-founder and current President of the National Iranian American Council

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar

• Area of Expertise: Iranian politics, Political Islam
• Adjunct faculty at The George Washington University (2008 – Present)
• Broadcast journalist for BBC World Service (2006 – Present)

 Mr. Alex Vatanka

• Area of Expertise: Afghanistan, Iran, Iranian Politics
• Senior Middle East Analyst, Jane's Information Group
• Managing editor of Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst and Jane’s Intelligence Digest (2006–present)

Dr. Marvin Weinbaum

• Area of Expertise: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism
• Former Afghanistan and Pakistan Analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence Research at the US Department of State (1999-2003)
• Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois; served as Director of the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Mr. Wayne White

• Area of Expertise: Iran, Iraq, US Foreign Policy
• Deputy Director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research's Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia (INR/NESA) and senior regional analyst (2002-2005)
• Principal Iraq analyst and head of INR/NESA's Iraq team (2003-2005)
• Chief of INR's Maghreb, Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq division and State Department representative to NATO Middle East working groups (1990-2002)