Iraq Study Group Expert Working Groups
The work of the Iraq Study Group was supported by four expert working groups, as well as a panel of senior retired military officers. The expert working groups addressed four broad topics: the strategic environment in and around Iraq; the security of Iraq and key challenges to enhancing security within the country; political developments within Iraq following the elections and formation of the new government; and the economy and reconstruction.
- Economy and Reconstruction
- Military and Security
- Political Development
- Strategic Environment
- Military Senior Advisor Panel
Group One: Economy and Reconstruction
- Gary Matthews, USIP Secretariat
Director, Task Force on the United Nations and Special Projects, United States Institute of Peace - Raad Alkadiri
Director, Country Strategies Group, PFC Energy - Frederick D. Barton
Senior Adviser and Co-Director, International Security Program,
Center for Strategic & International Studies - Jay Collins
Chief Executive Officer, Public Sector Group, Citigroup, Inc. - Jock P. Covey
Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Corporate Security and Sustainability Services, Bechtel Corporation - Keith Crane
Senior Economist, RAND Corporation - Amy Myers Jaffe
Associate Director for Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University - K. Riva Levinson
Managing Director, BKSH & Associates - David A. Lipton
Managing Director and Head of Global Country Risk Management, Citigroup, Inc - Michael E. O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution - James A. Placke
Senior Associate, Cambridge Energy Research Associates - James A. Schear
Director of Research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Group Two: Military and Security
- Paul Hughes, USIP Secretariat
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-conflict Peace and Stability Operations,
United States Institute of Peace - Hans A. Binnendijk
Director & Theodore Roosevelt Chair, Center for Technology & National Security Policy, National Defense University - James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Defense and Homeland Security, Doug and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation - Michele A. Flournoy
Senior Advisor, International Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies - Michael Eisenstadt
Director, Military & Security Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Bruce Hoffman
Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University - Clifford May
President, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies - Robert M. Perito
Senior Program Officer, Center for Post-conflict Peace and Stability Operations,
United States Institute of Peace - Kalev I. Sepp
Assistant Professor, Department of Defense Analysis, Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, Naval Postgraduate School - John F. Sigler
Adjunct Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University - W. Andrew Terrill
Research Professor, National Security Affairs, Strategic Studies Institute - Jeffrey A. White
Berrie Defense Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Group Three: Political Development
- Daniel Serwer, USIP Secretariat
Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, United States Institute of Peace - Raymond H. Close
Freelance Analyst and Commentator on Middle East Politics - Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy - Andrew P.N. Erdmann
Former Director for Iran, Iraq and Strategic Planning, National Security Council - Reuel Marc Gerecht
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute - David L. Mack
Vice President, The Middle East Institute - Phebe A. Marr
Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace - Hassan Mneimneh
Director, Documentation Program, The Iraq Memory Foundation - Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of International Relations and Anthropology, Department of International Relations, Boston University - Marina S. Ottaway
Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Judy Van Rest
Executive Vice President, International Republican Institute - Judith S. Yaphe
Distinguished Research Fellow for the Middle East, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Group Four: Strategic Environment
- Paul Stares, USIP Secretariat
Vice President, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace - Jon B. Alterman
Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies - Steven A. Cook
Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations - James F. Dobbins
Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation - Hillel Fradkin
Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute - Chas W. Freeman
Chairman, Projects International and President, Middle East Policy Council - Geoffrey Kemp
Director, Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center - Daniel C. Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor, Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Ellen Laipson
President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center - William B. Quandt
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle
East Policy, The Brookings Institution - Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, Department of Government & Politics, University of Maryland and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Saban Center
for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution - Wayne White
Adjunct Scholar, Public Policy Center, Middle East Institute
Military Senior Advisor Panel
- Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr.
United States Navy, Retired - General John M. Keane
United States Army, Retired - General Edward C. Meyer
United States Army, Retired - General Joseph W. Ralston
United States Air Force, Retired - Lieutenant General Roger C. Schultz, Sr.
United States Army, Retired