Expert Working Groups and Military Senior Advisor Panel

Economy and Reconstruction

Gary Matthews -- USIP Secretariat Director, Task Force on the United Nations and Special Projects, United States Institute of Peace

Raad Alkadiri -- Director, Country Strategies Group, PFC Energy

Frederick D. Barton -- Senior Adviser and Co-Director, International Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Jay Collins -- Chief Executive Officer, Public Sector Group, Citigroup, Inc.

Jock P. Covey -- Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Corporate Security and Sustainability Services, Bechtel Corporation

Keith Crane -- Senior Economist, RAND Corporation

Amy Myers Jaffe -- Associate Director for Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

K. Riva Levinson -- Managing Director, BKSH & Associates

David A. Lipton -- Managing Director and Head of Global Country Risk Management, Citigroup, Inc

Michael E. O'Hanlon -- Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

James A. Placke -- Senior Associate, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

James A. Schear -- Director of Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Military and Security

Paul Hughes -- USIP Secretariat Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, United States Institute of Peace

Hans A. Binnendijk -- Director & Theodore Roosevelt Chair, Center for Technology & National Security Policy, National Defense University

James Carafano -- Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Michael Eisenstadt -- Director, Military & Security Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Michèle A. Flournoy -- Senior Advisor, International Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Bruce Hoffman -- Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Clifford May -- President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Robert M. Perito -- Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, United States Institute of Peace

Kalev I. Sepp -- Assistant Professor, Department of Defense Analysis, Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, Naval Postgraduate School

John F. Sigler -- Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University

W. Andrew Terrill -- Research Professor, National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute

Jeffrey A. White -- Berrie Defense Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Political Development

Daniel P. Serwer -- USIP Secretariat Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, United States Institute of Peace

Raymond H. Close -- Freelance Analyst and Commentator on Middle East Politics

Larry Diamond -- Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy

Andrew P. N. Erdmann -- Former Director for Iran, Iraq and Strategic Planning, National Security Council

Reuel Marc Gerecht -- Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

David L. Mack -- Vice President, The Middle East Institute

Phebe A. Marr -- Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace

Hassan Mneimneh -- Director, Documentation Program, The Iraq Memory Foundation

Augustus Richard Norton -- Professor of International Relations and Anthropology, Department of International Relations, Boston University

Marina S. Ottaway -- Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Judy Van Rest -- Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute

Judith S. Yaphe -- Distinguished Research Fellow for the Middle East, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Strategic Environment

Paul Stares -- USIP Secretariat Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace

Jon B. Alterman -- Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Steven A. Cook -- Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

James F. Dobbins -- Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation

Hillel Fradkin -- Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute

Chas W. Freeman -- Chairman, Projects International and President, Middle East Policy Council

Geoffrey Kemp -- Director, Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center

Daniel C. Kurtzer -- S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor, Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Ellen Laipson -- President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center

William B. Quandt -- Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings - Institution

Shibley Telhami -- Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland, and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution

Wayne White -- Adjunct Scholar, Public Policy Center, Middle East Institute

Military Senior Advisor Panel

Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. -- United States Navy, Retired

General John M. Keane -- United States Army, Retired

General Edward C. Meyer -- United States Army, Retired

General Joseph W. Ralston -- United States Air Force, Retired

Lieutenant General Roger C. Schultz, Sr. -- United States Army, Retired