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Our Team

Staff

Ahmed Alwani

Founder and President

Alex Chen

Special Assistant to Senior Director, Special Initiatives

Aram Shabanian

Open-Source Information Gathering (OSIG) Manager, Operations

Azeem Ibrahim

Senior Director, Special Initiatives

Caroline Rose

Director, Strategic Blind Spots

Carolyn Moorman

Analyst, Strategic Blind Spots

Emily Prey

Director, Gender Policy

Eugene Chausovsky

Senior Director, Analytical Development

Faysal Itani

Senior Director

Gaamaa Hishigsuren

Senior Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Jessica Peyton

Operations Manager, Operations

Kallie Mitchell

Analyst, Gender Policy

Kamran Bokhari

Senior Director, Eurasian Security and Prosperity

Kareem Makhlouf

Senior Director, Operations

Kelsey Quinn

Open-Source Information Gathering (OSIG) Coordinator, Operations

Kevin Cowl

Senior Director, Development and External Relations

Kevin Hargis

Editor, Analytical Development

Leila Kalmbach

Analysis Supervisor, Analytical Development

Minna Jaffery-Lindemulder

Senior Manager, Analytical Development

Morgan Fowle

Analytical Products Intern, Analytical Development

Nicholas A. Heras

Senior Director

Robert Calzada

Graphics Editor, Analytical Development

Robert Inks

Senior Editor, Analytical Development

Robert Kremzner

Multimedia Intern, Analytical Development Department

Robin Blackburn

Managing Editor, Analytical Development

Tammy Palacios

Senior Analyst, Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism

Tashi Chogyal

Senior Policy Analyst, Development and External Relations

Senior Advisors

Naweed Khan

Senior Advisor

Themistoklis Asthenidis

Senior Advisor

Non-Resident Fellows

Alejandro Beutel

Non-Resident Fellow

Amy K. Mitchell

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Chaouki Ghenai

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Daryl Johnson

Non-Resident Fellow

Dr. Elise Anderson

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Dr. Karam Shaar

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Dr. Massaab Al-Aloosy

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Elizabeth Tsurkov

Non-Resident Fellow

Myles B. Caggins III

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Myriam Francois

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Tanya Domi 

Non-Resident Senior Fellow

Guest Contributors