Our Team

Leadership Council
Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky Fmr. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs	Steve Forbes Board Member CEO Forbes Magazine
Judge Louis J. Freeh Fmr. Director of the FBI	Newt Gingrich Fmr. Speaker of the House
Max M. Kampelman Fmr. Ambassador	Bill Kristol Editor Weekly Standard
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) U.S. Senate	Robert "Bud" McFarlane Fmr. National Security Advisor
R. James Woolsey Fmr. Director of the CIA
Board of Advisors
Hon. Charles E. Allen Principal at the Chertoff Group and Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security	Gary Bauer President American Values
Rep. Eric Cantor Chairman (R-VA) Task Force on Terrorism	Gene Gately Former Intelligence and Defense Official
General P.X. Kelley USMC (RET)	Charles Krauthammer Syndicated Columnist
Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland Former Defense Department Official	Richard Perle Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor
Steven Pomerantz Former Assistant Director FBI	Oliver "Buck" Revell Former Associate Deputy Director FBI
Bret Stephens Columnist and Member of the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board	Hon. Francis J. "Bing" West Author and former Assistant Secretary of Defense

In Memoriam
Jack Kemp Chairman, 2001-2007 Chairman Emeritus, 2007-2008	Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Founding Member, 2001-2006 Fmr. Ambassador to the UN

Staff and Senior Fellows
Khairi Abaza Senior Fellow	Tony Badran Research Fellow, Levant
Amb. Richard Carlson Vice Chairman	Noah Chestnut Communications and Technology Manager
Mark Dubowitz Executive Director	Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Director, Center for Terrorism Research
Reuel Marc Gerecht Senior Fellow	Dr. Sebastian Gorka Military Affairs Fellow
Laura Grossman Research Analyst	Madeleine Gruen Director of Research Deputy Director of the Center for Terrorism Research
Avi Jorisch Senior Fellow	Thomas Joscelyn Senior Fellow
Jonathan Kay Visiting Fellow	Orde Kittrie Senior Fellow
Burak Kuntay Visiting Fellow	Dr. Michael Ledeen Freedom Scholar
Clifford D. May President	Judy Mayka Director of Communications
Andrew C. McCarthy Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism	Bill McCarthy Senior Vice President of Communications and Operations
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi Senior Fellow	Dr. J. Peter Pham Senior Fellow: Africa
Dr. Walid Phares Director, FDD's Future of Terrorism Project	David B. Rivkin, Jr. Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism
Stephanie Robson Director of Policy Coalitions	Cara Rosenthal Senior Manager, Development
Claudia Rosett Journalist-in-Residence Director, FDD's Investigative Reporting Project	Jonathan Schanzer Vice President of Research
Jean Thurman	Victoria Toensing Fmr. Chief Counsel to Sen. Intelligence Committee
Sara R. Westfall Special Assistant to the VP of Research	Dr. Robert Zubrin Senior Fellow FDD's Energy and Security Project

Adjunct Fellows
Dr. Jonathan Adelman Professor University of Denver	Bill Ardolino Military Analyst
Richard Z. Chesnoff Journalist	Paul Crespo Former Marine Corps Officer and Military Attache
Tanya Gilly Member of the Iraqi National Assembly	Olivier Guitta Counterterrorism and Foreign Affairs consultant
Ethan Gutmann Adjunct Fellow The Foundation for Defense of Democracies	Michael I. Krauss Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law
Agota Kuperman U.S. Foreign Service (ret.)	Joel Mowbray Journalist
Bill Roggio Editor, The Long War Journal	Dr. Frederic Smoler Professor Sarah Lawrence College

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Clifford D. May, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, is president of FDD. May served as an expert advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Commission, was appointed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's committee on democracy, and has been called one of America's "100 most influential conservatives"by Britain's Telegraph newspaper...more

EVENTS

Reuel Marc Gerecht to speak at the Foreign Policy Initiative
February 11, 2010 —

Iran: Prospects for Regime ChangeIran: Prospects for Regime Change

The ongoing turmoil in Iran almost nine months after 2009's fraudulent presidential election raises questions about the continued viability of the Iranian regime...more

Dr. Michael Ledeen to speak at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar
February 16, 2010 —

Topic: “US National Security: Threats and Challenges: The US and the Middle East Today...more

Reuel Marc Gerecht to speak at Stanford University about the Muslim World and Democracy
February 22, 2010 —
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FROM THE BLOGS

From Faster, Please!: What is Iran Planning for Thursday? , 02/8/2010

Khamenei, whose public statements should be taken seriously, is promising some sort of devastating "punch" against the West on Thursday the 11th, the same day as the Green Movement is calling for a monster protest against his regime...more

From The Long War Journal: Shabaab calls for jihad against Kenya by Bill Roggio, 02/8/2010

A senior leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia has declared jihad against neighboring Kenya for supporting the weak Somali Transitional Federal Government...more

From The Long War Journal: Iranian-backed Shia terror group kidnaps US civilian in Baghdad by Bill Roggio, 02/6/2010

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