Matthew Olsen served as the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025.

Jodie C. Liu formerly researched national security issues at the Brookings Institution as a Ford Foundation Law School Fellow and has worked at the Open Society Foundations in Budapest, Hungary. She grad...

Faysal Itani is a Resident Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. His work focuses on the Levant including Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan.

Sebastian Brady was a National Security Intern at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a major in political science and a minor in philosophy. He p...

Charles Lister is a senior fellow and the Director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Cente...

Richard Sokolsky is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2005-2015 he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Office.

Gordon Adams is a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center.

Peter Feaver is a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. He is director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) and director of the Duke Program in American Gr...

Jeremy Shapiro is the director of research at the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of focus include U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic relations.

Eric Mill is an engineer and advocate, previously of the Sunlight Foundation and currently at 18F. Eric's work focuses on a stronger web and a more open government.