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 briefer on Iran and Iraq for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) and Jordanian cabinet-level officials (1981-1986), Political Officer at the US Interests Section in Baghdad (1983) and US Sinai Field Mission peacekeeper (1978-1979)
• Currently a Policy Expert with Washington's Middle East Policy Council