Dr. Chorin served from 2004-2008 as a Foreign Service Officer, posted to Libya and the United Arab Emirates. From 2007-2008, he was a contributor to the Obama Campaign's Middle East Policy Group, and a Sr. Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington (2008).
Chorin holds a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford and an undergraduate degree with distinction in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from Yale. A two-time Fulbright recipient (Yemen, Jordan), he speaks Arabic, Farsi and French. Chorin is the author of Translating Libya: The Libyan Short Story (Saqi Press, 2008).