Iraq Study Group

Expert Working Groups and Military Senior Advisor Panel

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