Colin Kahl
dr. Colin Kahl
American political adviser, former White House staff member
Colin Kahl was the Deputy Assistant to President Obama and National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden.
In addition to teaching at Georgetown, Dr. Kahl served as Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2009-2011, Dr. Kahl served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. In that position, he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in June 2011. Dr. Kahl served at the Pentagon from 2005-2006, where he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations. Dr. Kahl is the author of a number of reports and publications on far-ranging issues in the Middle East.
The Common Good hosted Dr. Kahl in 2012: Col. Jack Jacobs & Colin Kahl, Middle East Hot Topics.
Twitter: @ColinKahl
Colonel Jack Jacobs
Colonel Jack Jacobs
Ret. Colonel in the U.S. Army
Jack Howard Jacobs is a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. He currently serves as a military analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, and previously worked as an investment manager.
Jack Jacobs fought in Vietnam where he was promoted to captain and awarded the Medal of Honor. In addition to the Medal of Honor, Jacobs received two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. Jacobs was a faculty member at the United States Military Academy in West Point, teaching international relations and comparative politics for three years, and at the National War College in Washington, D.C. He retired from the Army in 1987 as a colonel, and began a career in investment banking. Jacobs maintains involvement in several military-related organizations. He is vice chairman of the Medal of Honor Foundation, a member of the board of trustees for the National World War II Museum, and holds the McDermott Chair of Politics at the U.S. Military Academy.
In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs’ memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America’s Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century. In May 2012, Thomas Dunne Books published Basic: Surviving Boot Camp and Basic Training, co-written with David Fisher.
Jacobs was hosted by The Common Good alongside Colin Kahl in 2012: Col. Jack Jacobs & Colin Kahl, Middle East Hot Topics.
Twitter: @ColJackJacobs
Jodi Kantor
Jodi Kantor
Journalist, The New York Times correspondent
Jodi Kantor is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and a best-selling author. (1)
Ms. Kantor specializes in long-form, deeply reported stories. Before she and Megan Twohey broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged abuse towards women, Ms. Kantor’s investigations into conditions at Starbucks and Amazon prompted national debates and policy changes at both companies. Along with colleagues who exposed harassment across industries, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, journalism's highest honor. Before becoming a reporter, Ms. Kantor was the New York editor of Slate magazine and The Times’s Arts & Leisure editor. (1)
Kantor was hosted by The Common Good in 2012 to discuss her book The Obamas: Jodi Kantor on her new book “The Obamas”.
Twitter: @jodikantor
(1) Material from the She Said (the book) website.
Susan Blumenthal
Dr.Susan Blumenthal
American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist, public health advocate
Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and Senior Global Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Blumenthal has been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including pandemic flu and AIDS. She was a pioneer in applying information technology to improve health and was among the first in the government to use the Internet for health education.
Dr. Blumenthal currently serves as the Director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC), where she co-chairs the Center’s Commission on Future Directions in Health Care. She also directs its health diplomacy programs including a Palestinian/Israeli Health Initiative supported by USAID that has convened experts, developed recommendations for cooperative programs and used information technology to help foster information exchange. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, and is Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center. Dr. Blumenthal is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown and Tufts School of Medicine.
Dr. Blumenthal was recently decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service, its highest honor, “for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our Nation, and the world.”
Dr. Blumenthal has also been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency pandemic preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including AIDS and COVID-19. She is currently a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America where she is focused on a broad range of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, applying technology to advance public health, health reform implementation, food insecurity, women’s health, and global health. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts and Georgetown Schools of Medicine.
Dr. Blumenthal was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Aftermath: Supreme Court & Health Care with Carl Bernstein, Jeffrey Toobin & Susan Blumenthal – July 19, 2012.
Dr. Blumenthal returned to moderated the event COVID-19: Then, Now and What’s To Come with Dr. Daniel R. Lucey from Georgetown University and a leading scholar in infectious diseases, and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden as we learn about the origins, the spread and what the future will be like as a result of Covid-19.
Leslie Gelb
Leslie Gelb
Author, former correspondent for The New York Times
Leslie Gelb is a former correspondent for The New York Times and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of the 2009 book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Policy.
Gelb was diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to 1977. He served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979, winning the Distinguished Honor Award, the highest award of the US State Department. He returned to the Times in 1981; from then until 1993, he was in turn its national security correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, editor of the Op-Ed Page, and columnist. This period included his leading role on the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1986 for a six-part comprehensive series on the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative.
He serves as the chairman of the advisory board for the progressive foreign policy think tank, National Security Network, on the board of directors of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, member of the board of directors of the Truman Project, board of directors of the the Center for the National Interest and the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran.
Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff
American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer, writer
Abramoff started his political career at Brandeis University as head of the College Republicans. After becoming national chairman of that group, Abramoff was soon named head of President Ronald Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization on Capitol Hill. He held that position while attending Georgetown Law Center at night, and obtained his JD in 1986. After a detour into motion picture production, Abramoff returned to the nation’s capital to build one of the most successful lobbying practices in history. He spent a lengthy term in federal prison on corruption charges.
His downfall caused Abramoff to reassess his past, and his book Capitol Punishment is designed to alert our nation about what goes on behind the guarded doors of power in Washington, DC. Since his release from prison, Abramoff has appeared on hundreds of television and radio networks and programs, including CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, “60 Minutes” and “The Colbert Report”.
Mr. Abramoff was hosted by The Common Good for a discussion about his book “Capitol Punishment,” which talks about reforming lobbying practices in U.S. national politics, in 2012: Jack Abramoff on Lobby Reform – June 20, 2012.
Twitter: @jackabramoff
Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin
Author, political activist
Todd Gitlin is an author and political activist. His latest book is Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, published in April 2012. Gitlin’s two previous books are The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election (with Liel Leibovitz) and Undying. He has written 12 books, chiefly on media and contemporary America. He has also published a book of poetry, Busy Being Born, and his book Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for novels on Jewish themes.
He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, lectures frequently in the United States and abroad, is a member of the editorial board of Dissent.
Gitlin spoke at The Common Good on June 20th, 2012, alongside Jesse LaGreca: The Power of Protest: Todd Gitlin & Jesse LaGreca.
Twitter: @toddgitlin
Senator Tim Kaine
Senator Tim Kaine
American lawyer, politician
Tim Kaine has served people throughout his adult life as a missionary, fair housing attorney, teacher and elected official. He is the current junior Senator from Virginia.
Tim entered political life in 1994, running for the Richmond City Council. He served until 2001 as a Councilman and Mayor. Richmond saw an economic renaissance that led to increasing population, a bond rating upgrade and recognition by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s ten best cities for doing business. In 2001, Tim was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He worked to reform Virginia’s budget and improve Virginia’s education system. In 2005, Tim was elected Virginia’s 70th Governor. Virginia was honored as the Best Managed State in America (Governing Magazine), the Best State for Business (Forbes.com—four years in a row) and the Best State to Raise a Child (Education Week). Virginia maintained its Triple A bond rating for fiscal management—an honor shared by only 7 states—and had one of the nation’s lowest unemployment rates and highest median incomes.
Tim was the Chairman of the Southern Governor’s Association in 2008-09 and served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 through 2011. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees from organizations such as the Richmond Bar Association, Virginia Military Institute, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Virginia Council of Churches.
In 2016, Senator Kaine ran for Vice President on the democratic ticket with Hilary Clinton unsuccessfully.
Senator Kaine was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Governor Tim Kaine on the Election Cycle.
Twitter: @timkaine
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Political scientist
Thomas E. Mann is a political scientist, author, and pundit who works at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, especially campaign finance reform.
He first went to Washington D.C. in 1969, where he worked as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O’Hara. Mann is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, “dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy”.
Mann was hosted alongside Norman Ornstein by The Common Good in 2012 to discuss their book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism.
Norman Ornstein
dr. Norman Ornstein
Political scientist, author
Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies politics, elections, and the US Congress. He is a co-host of AEI’s Election Watch series, a contributing editor and columnist for the National Journal and The Atlantic, a BBC News election analyst, and the chairman of the Campaign Legal Center.
Dr. Ornstein previously served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and senior counselor to the Continuity of Government Commission. A longtime observer and analyst of American politics and the US Congress, he has been involved in political reform for decades, particularly campaign finance reform and the reform of Senate committees. He has also played a part in creating the Congressional Office of Compliance and the House Office of Congressional Ethics.
His many interviews have been aired on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, and PBS NewsHour, among others. His articles and opinion pieces have been published widely, including in Politico, The New York Times, NY Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Dr. Ornstein’s books include the bestsellers One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported, with E. J. Dionne and Thomas E. Mann (St. Martin’s Press, 2017); and It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism; The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track, with Thomas Mann (Oxford University Press, 2006); and The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI Press, 2000).
The Common Good hosted him and co-author Thomas Mann to discuss their book It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism on May 24th, 2012.
Twitter: @NormOrnstein
Governor Christine Todd Whitman
Governor Christine Todd Whitman
American politician
Former Governor Christine Todd Whitman serves as co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council (RLC), which she founded with Senator John Danforth. The RLC’s mission is to support fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidates and to reclaim the word Republican. The RLC was created in March of 2007 by joining forces with Governor Whitman’s political action committee, It’s My Party Too. She is the author of a New York Times best seller by the same name, which was published in January of 2005 and released in paperback in March 2006.
Governor Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003. She was the 50th Governor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001.
Governor Whitman is on the Steering Committee of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey; the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Fellowships; the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Governing Board of the Park City Center for Public Policy; and is a member of the Board of the New America Foundation. She was also the Co-Chair for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force, More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa as well as the Aspen Health Stewardship Project, which was released in February of 2008. She co-chairs Clean and Safe Energy (CASE) with Dr. Patrick Moore.
The Common Good hosted Governor Whitman in 2012: Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Twitter: @GovCTW
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American feminist, journalist, and social political activist
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.
In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime, and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime.
Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twVFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA, a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries. She was a member of the Beyond Racism Initiative, a three-year effort on the part of activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of those three countries and to learn cross-nationally. Now, she is working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement.
Twitter: @gloriasteinem
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Gayle King
Gayle King
American television journalist and personality
Gayle King is the co-host of CBS This Morning and Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine. Since joining CBS News in 2011, King has conducted revealing and news-making interviews with world leaders, political figures, and celebrities for the broadcast, including Michelle Obama, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jack and Suzy Welch, Taylor Swift and Cicely Tyson.
King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist. In addition to three Emmy’s, she was honored in 2008 with the American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show and in 2010 with both the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information and the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award recipient. She was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News’ division-wide coverage of the Newtown tragedy.
The Common Good hosted King in March of 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.
Twitter: @GayleKing
Rachel Roy
Rachel Roy
Fashion designer, activist
Rachel Roy is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist. She founded Kindness Is Always Fashionable, an entrepreneurial philanthropic platform to help women artisans around the world create sustainable income for their families and communities. In 2018 Rachel was named a UN Women Champion for Innovation, and works for the UN advocating gender equality and focusing attention on these and related issues. She is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is an advisor to World of Children, a national non-profit organization that serves underprivileged children.
Rachel has been recognized by the Accessories Council with an ACE AWARD for best brand launch as well as Mattel’s 10 Women to Watch. Rachel has also been recognized for her innovative brand and film work by AdWeek Media and the LaJolla Fashion Film Festival. She has been a contributing columnist to Huffington Post and InStyle magazine. Rachel’s work has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and numerous other publications. In 2015, Rachel wrote Design Your Life.
The Common Good hosted Roy in 2011: Summer Cocktail Party with Manhattan Magazine and at The American Spirit Awards 2011, and in 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.
Twitter: @Rachel_Roy
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Maria Cuomo Cole
Maria Cuomo Cole
Filmmaker and Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Maria Cuomo Cole has produced and directed films and public service announcements to raise awareness for social issues including homelessness, domestic violence, at-risk youth, and gun violence. She has captured numerous intimate first person stories of hardship and perseverance on film, video, and in print, which have been broadcast and published in a variety of media. Current film projects include documentaries on female veterans and reflections by prominent Americans on their personal mentors. Cuomo Cole has served as a Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March since 2005, participating in the strategic leadership of the organization.
Since 1992 she has led the nonprofit agency, HELP USA as Executive Chairman. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded nationally to become one of the largest providers of homes, jobs and services for the homeless in the United States. Additionally, Cuomo Cole produced the documentary Newtown.
Ms. Cuomo Cole is an appointee of the New York State Advisory Committee on the Welfare of Children and Families and the Mayor’s Task Force to Combat Domestic Violence of New York City. She serves as a director of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and HELP PSI. This year she was honored with the American Red Cross Humanitarian Award and the Newark Now Award.
The Common Good hosted Ms. Cuomo Cole in May of 2011: Manhattan Society: The Common Good Hosts Screening for “Living for 32” and she spoke at The Common Good Forum & The American Spirit Awards 2014.
Twitter: @MariaCuomoCole
Jerry Nadler
Congressman Jerry Nadler
Politician, Congressman NY-10
Congressman Jerrold “Jerry” Nadler represents New York’s 10th Congressional District, one of the most dynamic and diverse districts in the country. The district includes Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, Soho, Wall Street, and Battery Park City, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Kensington, and parts of Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park and Midwood.
Rep. Nadler began his career in public service in 1976 in the New York State Assembly. Representing the Upper West Side, he served as a Democratic Assemblyman for 16 years and played a significant role in shaping New York State law concerning child support enforcement and domestic abuse, as well as making major contributions to housing, transportation and consumer protection policy in the state. In 1992, Rep. Nadler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election and has served in Congress ever since. He was re-elected to his fourteenth full term in 2018.
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Nadler served as Chairman or Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties for 13 years and also served as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
The Common Good hosted Congressman Nadler on March 13th, 2012: Congressman Jerry Nadler: What Every Voter Should Know – March 13, 2012.
Twitter: @RepJerryNadler
Governor Howard Dean
Governor Howard Dean
Former Governor of Vermont, former DNC Chairman
Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S. Presidential campaign was unsuccessful, Dean is regarded as a pioneer in raising the profile of Internet-based fundraising and grassroots organizing.
In 1991, Dean became governor of Vermont and was subsequently elected to five two-year terms, serving from 1991 to 2003, making him the second longest-serving governor in Vermont history. He formed the organization Democracy for America and later was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2005. As chairman of the party, Dean created and employed the 50 State Strategy that attempted to make Democrats competitive in normally conservative states often dismissed in the past as “solid red”. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama used the 50 state strategy as the backbone of his candidacy.
Dean was named chairman emeritus of the DNC upon his retirement.
Governor Dean was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Meet & Greet: Governor Howard Dean – February 17, 2012.
Twitter: @GovHowardDean
Dr. Rachel Adato
Dr. Rachel Adato
Israeli gynecologist, lawyer, politician
Dr. Rachel Adato-Levy is an Israeli gynecologist, lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima from 2009 through 2013.
She gained a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as an MBA and a degree in law. She served as a senior doctor at the women’s department of Hadassah Medical Center at Mount Scopus and became Deputy Director of Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in 1993. In 1995 she became vice-president of Sha’arei Tzedek Medical Center. From 1997 she served as a consultant on women’s health for the Minister of Health, and has chaired the National Women’s Health Association since 1999.
Adato formerly has served on Mevaseret Zion city council as a member of the Likud central committee. She currently chairs the lobby for the Promotion of Women’s Health. Dr. Adato is also a member of numerous different health-related organizations including the Public Committee for Setting the Health Basket, the Board of Hospital Directors, the Steering Committee for Prevention of Violence towards Women (in the health system), the Steering Committee for Establishing Medical Centers for Victims of Sexual Assault, and 4 delegations to the UN on women’s health.
Dr. Adato spoke at The Common Good in 2012 on a panel about the challenges women in Israel face from the strict orthodox culture.
Jill Iscol
Jill Iscol
Educator, activist
Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, Ed.D, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it.
Jill has been actively involved in the Democratic Party and served as Chairperson of the Annual Family Re-Union Conference, moderated by then-Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore. She also served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate’s New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 Finance Committee.
Most recently, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security in Washington. She’s also a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and in 2011 was appointed to the US-Afghan Women’s Council.
Iscol published her first book, Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today's Visionaries Igniting Idealism Into Action, in 2012.
The Common Good hosted Iscol to discuss her book in 2012: Author Jill Iscol on her book “Hearts on Fire”.
Twitter: @jilliscol
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
Expert on Middle East politics and affairs
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is an expert on Middle East politics and affairs, specializing in peace negotiations between Israel and Arab states. For the past seventeen years, Dr. Ben-Meir has been directly involved in various negotiations between Israel and its neighboring countries and has operated as a liaison between top Arab and Israeli officials. Dr. Ben-Meir serves as senior fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs where he has taught courses on the Middle East and international negotiations. Dr. Ben-Meir hosts “Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir,” a speaking series of debates and conversations with top policy-makers from around the world held each semester at NYU. He also regularly briefs at the US State Department for the International Visitors Program.
Dr. Ben-Meir writes weekly articles, including a syndicated column in the Jerusalem Post. His articles have appeared in scores of newspapers, magazines and websites including the Middle East Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde, American Chronicle, the Political Quarterly, Israel Policy Forum, Gulf Times, the Harvard Review, and the World Policy Journal. He makes regular television and radio appearances, and has been featured on networks such as ABC, Al Jazeera (English and Arabic), Al Arabiya, CNN, FOX, NPR, PBS and Russia Today.
He has authored seven books related to Middle East policy and is currently working on a new book about the psychological dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Ben-Meir holds a masters degree in philosophy and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. He is fluent in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.
Mr. Ben-Meir was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Ambassador Riyad Mansour with Dr. Alon Ben Meir- January 30, 2012.
Twitter: @AlonBenMeir