• Muhammad Najjar received a master’s degree from Columbia University in 2023, where he specialized in conflict resolution and technology. He previously worked as a Syria political assistant at the U.S. De...
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  • Nakissa Jahanbani is a researcher at the Combating Terrorism Center and an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy. She holds a doctorate in political scienc...
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  • George J. Gilboy is an executive at a global energy firm. He is also a research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies. He holds a doctorate in political science from MIT. The views expressed...
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  • Carter Burwell is counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and a member of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB). The views stated in his articles are his and do not reflect the views or positions...
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  • Katherine R. Seifert is an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. The views stated in her articles are hers and do not reflect the views or positions of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP or its clients.
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  • Ana Iparraguirre is a partner at the consulting firm GBAO.
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  • Rick Beyer is a New York Times best-selling author and documentary producer. His independent documentary, The Ghost Army, tells the story of an extraordinary WWII unit that used creativity and illusion t...
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  • Matt Ince is an associate director at Dragonfly, a geopolitical and security intelligence firm. He spent a decade working within the U.K.’s national security community, and prior to that he worked at the...
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  • Zoe Kreitenberg is a former U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery captain and a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School.
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  • Gary Miller is a senior research fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
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  • Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades.
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  • Ivan Krstić has headed Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), the group responsible for end-to-end security of all Apple products, since its inception. He has led the design and implementati...
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  • Brad Onishi researches Christian nationalism and teaches at the University of San Francisco. His book, Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next, examine...
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  • Joana Cook is editor in chief at ICCT and an associate professor of terrorism and political violence at Leiden University.
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  • Bill Wright is the global Head of Government Affairs at Elastic.
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  • Kyle Cheney is a senior legal affairs reporter for Politico.
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  • Mark Stout is a scholar-practitioner in intelligence history and security studies. He has worked as an analyst or manager of analysts for the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and t...
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  • Saeed Bagheri is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Law at the University of Reading School of Law. Bagheri conducts research in the law on the use of force and international humanitarian la...
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  • Josh Paul is the former director in the State Department’s political-military affairs bureau, which oversees U.S. arms transfers.
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  • Nicholas Bednar is an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He writes in the areas of executive politics, administrative law, and immigration. He holds a PhD in political ...
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