• Phyllis Bennis– Program Director, Institute of Policy studies  | Author, “Before & After US Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism” | Staff Profile | Book
• Frances Z. Brown – Senior Fellow and Co-director of Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program | Staff Profile
• Kim Ghattas – Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Author, “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East”  | Book | Staff Profile
• Natasha Hall – Senior fellow with the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies | Staff Profile
• Henriette Johansen – Research Fellow at the Middle East Research Institute |  Staff Profile
• Karen Koning AbuZayd – Member of the Board of Directors on the Middle East Policy Council | Previously Under Secretary General and Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency | Commissioner for Independent International Commission of Inquiry | Staff Profile
• Bessma Momani – Professor at the University of Waterloo | Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation | 2015 Trudeau Fellow | Staff Profile
• Jomana Qaddour –  Resident Senior Fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs |  Member of the UN-facilitated Syrian Constitutional Committee | Staff Profile
• Reem Salahi – Nonresident Fellow at Atlantic Council | Senior Advisor, International Commission on Missing Persons’ (ICMP) Syria/MENA program | Staff Profile
• Jacqueline Shire – Finance Expert, ISIL, and Al-Qaeda Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team | Staff profile
• Barbara Slavin– Director, Future of Iran Initiative at Atlantic Council |  Author, “Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation” |  Book | Staff Profile
• Randa Slim – Senior Fellow and Director of Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program | Staff Profile