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Co-founder and CEO at Knowmadics. He is a former intelligence officer with multiple deployments to the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia. His expertise lies in specialized areas such as counter-terrorism, counter-drug, and personnel tracking and recovery operations
International relations scholar; a Harvard-trained negotiation, mediation and dispute resolution specialist; and Professor of Law who teaches negotiation, mediation and international conflict resolution at law school in Southern California
Middle East East and North Africa Consultant at the Navanti Group, an analytics firm advising US government and commercial clients.
His research and analysis on MENA politics and Russian influence in the region has been published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Foreign Policy magazine, an Edinburgh University Press book project, and Navanti News.
He holds an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in History from Durham University.
Former journalist at CNN, where he spent 19 years in a series of senior editorial roles including managing breaking news operations across Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He was also CNN's interim bureau chief in Delhi and Jerusalem. He currently works as a senior communications and content strategist.
National security commentator who has experience in the think tank space, counterterrorism analysis, and higher education