Dr. Ethan Chorin
Dr. David Gutelius

Will Ward
Spencer Witte
Mahmoud Hassan Yacoub

Ed Bice
Michael Brown
Napier Collyns
Ed Hirs III
Judith Miller
Geoffrey Milton
Dr. Jody Ranck
Dr. Sepp Tietze
Prof. Dirk Vandewalle
Kamel Mukharesh

Dr. Gutelius is a specialist in the economics of the Middle East and Africa, and is frequently consulted for his views on political and social developments in the region. He has led a number of community development projects in the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the role of social networks in Islamic banking and finance. His current work looks at the emergence of new identities and Social Media. He has lived throughout North Africa, and travels frequently in the Middle East. Previously, Gutelius was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.

Dr. Gutelius holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Economic History from Johns Hopkins and a B.A., with honors, in History and International Relations from Principia College. He speaks Hassaniyya, Darija, Arabic and French.

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).