Philip Wallach is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Why Congress” (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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...