• Jim Baker is a contributing editor to Lawfare. He is a former Deputy General Counsel of Twitter, the former General Counsel of the FBI, and the former Counsel for Intelligence Policy at the U.S. Departme...
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  • Ali Sada is the founder of IRFAD, an Iraq and U.S.-based organization that supports international development programs with field research, local insights, access and implementation expertise in Iraq, Sy...
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  • Jens Dakin is an international strategic communications professional, specializing in leveraging insights obtained from challenging operating environments to develop impactful and culturally-sensitive en...
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  • Daniel Gabriel is the Director and Executive Producer of MOSUL. His knowledge and deep understanding of the region and its politics began while he was working as a CIA counterterrorism officer in 2003, e...
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  • Ryan Pougiales is a senior political analyst at Third Way. Ryan completed his B.A. and M.A. in international studies at American University’s School of International Service.
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  • Dr. Ben Freeman is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction and Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy. He previously served as Deputy Director o...
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  • David Fishman is a former Brookings intern and recent graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied political science and legal studies. He traveled to Antarctica in 2014 on a multinational, envi...
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  • Kareeda Kabir is a senior at Georgetown University studying linguistics. She researches violent extremism.
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  • Fiona Singer is a senior in the School of Foriegn Service at Georgetown University, where she concentrates on the overlap of foreign policy and technology. She has done extensive work on disinformation o...
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  • Ines Oulamine is a senior in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her studies include internet platform health and politics and security in the Middle East-North Africa region.
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  • Henry Mihm studies Science, Technology & International Affairs at Georgetown University. He is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  • Nathan Swire is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School. Prior to law school he served for four years as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army, primarily with the Second Cavalry Regiment based out of Vils...
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  • Simon Gregory Jerome is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. He previously worked at the International Republican Institute in Washington, DC. He holds an M.I.A. in International Security Po...
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  • Steven E. Kaplow recently retired after having served 30 years as an attorney in the CIA Office of General Counsel, specializing in intelligence and national security law. He served four years as Deput...
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  • Radha Iyengar Plumb is the Global Head of Policy Analysis at Facebook. She has previously served in senior staff positions at the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and National Security Counci...
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  • Hilary Mossberg is The Sentry's anti-money laundering expert for Africa. She has over a decade of experience in illicit finance and national security and was formerly a senior advisor for terrorist finan...
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  • Wolfgang Schulz is director of Leibniz Institut for Media Research at the Hans-Bredow-Institut and Professor of Media Law, Public Law and Legal Theory at the University of Hamburg, he is also Director of...
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  • Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of ISIS and the Pornography of Violence (Anthem) a...
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  • Elena Hodges is a J.D. candidate at NYU Law School, where she is a scholar with the Root-Tilden-Kern and Institute for International Law and Justice programs. She has previously worked on refugee and mig...
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  • Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle Ea...
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