Farzin Nadimi, a Senior Fellow with The Washington Institute, is a Washington-based analyst specializing in the security and defense affairs of Iran and the Persian Gulf region. He has written ...

David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns ...

Noam Raydan is the William Sudhaus Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. She writes on topics related to energy and maritime risks in the Middle East. She is a co-creator of ...

David Pollock was the Bernstein Fellow at The Washington Institute focusing on the political dynamics of Middle Eastern countries from 2007 until his death in 2024. At the Institute, he was the ...

Simon Henderson is the Baker Senior Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute, specializing in energy matters and the conservative Arab states ...

Patrick Clawson is the Morningstar Senior Fellow and Research Counselor at The Washington Institute, where he directs the Viterbi Program on Iran and U.S. Policy. Widely consulted as an analyst and ...

Devorah Margolin is the Blumenstein-Rodan Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and Pepperdine University. Her research primarily focuses on ...

Michael Singh is the Managing Director and Steven D. Levy Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, a post he assumed in 2010, and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National ...

Ambassador James F. Jeffrey is the Philip Solondz Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute, a position he held from 2013 to 2018 before rejoining the Institute in 2025. His research focuses on ...

Michael Herzog is the Israel-based Tisch Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute. A retired brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), he served as Israel's ambassador to the ...

Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime ...

Grant Rumley is the Meisel Senior Fellow and Director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East, where he specializes in military and security ...