Patricia DeGennaro
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute

Patricia DeGennaro is adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Department of Politics where she teaches a course on international security. She is also a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and a subject matter expert on Afghanistan and Iraq for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command Center for Intelligence.
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Area of Expertise: Defense and Security, Development, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, Balkans, North Africa and Middle East, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Afghanistan, Iraq
Languages: Albanian, Arabic, Dari, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Field of Work: Academia, Think tank/Research center
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Raghida Dergham
Columnist, Al Hayat

Raghida Dergham is Columnist and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for the London-based Al Hayat, the leading independent Arabic daily, and has held this post since 1989.
Columnist, Al Hayat
Area of Expertise: International Relations, Media
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, North Africa and Middle East, North America
Languages: Arabic, English
Field of Work: Journalist/Commentator
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University

Rashid Khalidi has been the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University since 2003. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1987 until 2003. Previously, he taught at the Lebanese University and the American University of Beirut from 1974 to 1983, and at Georgetown and Columbia universities from 1983 until 1987. He received a B.A. in History from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1974.
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University
Area of Expertise: Religion, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: North Africa and Middle East, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Palestine
Languages: Arabic, English
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Richard Barrett
Coordinator, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team

Richard Barrett is an expert on Al Qaeda-related terrorism. He is based in New York. Since March 2004 he has been the United Nations Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team, also known as the Al Qaeda and Taliban Monitoring Team, appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General at the request of the Security Council.
Coordinator, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Implementation Monitoring Team
Area of Expertise: Defense and Security, Terrorism
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, North Africa and Middle East, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: Afghanistan
Language: English
Field of Work: United Nations
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Robert Chase

Robert Chase is the Executive Director of Intersections International and works globally in the field of cross-cultural dialogue. Prior to Intersections, he served as Executive Director of the United Church of Christ’s Office of Communication, Inc.—the UCC’s historic media justice agency—and Director of Communications for the UCC serving its over 1.2 million constituency.
Area of Expertise: Civil Society, Media, Religion
Geographical Expertise - Region: North Africa and Middle East, North America
Language: English
Field of Work: Non-Governmental, Religious Leader
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Robert Thurman
Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University

Robert A. F. “Tenzin†Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of Tibet House US, the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. The New York Times recently hailed him as “the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”
Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University
Area of Expertise: Religion, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: China
Languages: English, French, Tibetan
Field of Work: Academia, Think tank/Research center
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
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