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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Iraq Study Group
ISG Quick Stats
- Ten public servants5 Democrats, 5 Republicansmade up the ISG.
- The ISG's budget was $1 million, approved by Congress
- Three organizations joined USIP in facilitating the ISG.
- 44 people served in four Expert Working Groups to advise the ISG.
- The Iraq Study Group spent 4 days in Iraq in August/September.
- There were 9 plenary meetings of the ISG.
- The Iraq Study Group met with 136 people in and out of government before September 19, and 170 people total as it prepared its report.
- Members of the Iraq Study Group were not paid in any way for their work.
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