Experience

• 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)
• Served as the State Department's intelligence briefer on Iran and Iraq for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) and Jordanian cabinet-level officials (1981-1986), and on Iraq, Iran, and Syria for senior Israeli defense and military officials (1987-1990)
• Political Officer at the US Interests Section in Baghdad (1983), US Sinai Field Mission peacekeeper (1978-1979), and in various capacities as an Embassy Officer in Niger during the Sahel Drought Emergency (1974-1976).
• Currently a Policy Expert with Washington's Middle East Policy Council

Education

• MA, Penn State University, 1973
• BA, Penn State University, 1971

 
Country Expertise

• Algeria
• Iran
• Iraq
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Saudi Arabia
• Syria
• Yemen

Issue Expertise

• US-Arab Relations
• Persian Gulf Affairs
• US Foreign Policy
• Regional Security
• Peace Process
• Military & Defense
• Democratization
• Conflict Resolution
• Arab-Israeli Relations