Sam Parker
Program Officer - Iraq
Media and Conflict | Political Islam | Terrorism, Political Extremism | Middle East | Iraq
Phone: (202) 429-3891
E-mail: sparker@usip.org
Languages: Arabic
Sam Parker is a program officer in the Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations. He is involved in coordinating and providing consultation for USIP’s programs in Iraq, as well as researching and writing for the Institute’s Iraq publications.
Prior to joining USIP, Parker worked on open-source intelligence analysis on Iraqi politics and the Iraqi insurgency at Science Applications International Corporation. Prior to that, he worked at USIP as a researcher for the Iraq Study Group and as an assistant to esteemed Iraq scholar Phebe Marr.
Parker received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, M.D., and a M.A. in Arab studies from Georgetown University. He is a fluent reader of Arabic.
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