Mara Karlin

Executive Director

Director, Strategic Studies

Associate Professor

Atif Ahmad

Co-Lead, You Were There

Paula Alvarez-Couceiro

Research Assistant

David Barno

Senior Fellow

Visiting Professor

Nora Bensahel

Senior Fellow

Visiting Professor

James Byers

Research Assistant

Eric Edelman

Hertog Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence

Thomas Keaney

Senior Fellow

Senior Adjunct Professor

Daniel Marston

Director, Strategic Thinkers Program

Professor of the Practice

John McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence

Stephanie Papa

Program & Research Administrator

Dani Schugg

Program Coordinator

Adam Szubin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence

Paula Thornhill

Associate Director

Associate Professor

John R. Allen

Senior Fellow

Alia Awadallah

Research Assistant

Phoebe Benich

Research Assistant

Laura Blumenfeld

Senior Fellow

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Eliot Cohen

Dean, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Robert E. Osgood Professor

Holly Geffs

Co-Lead, You Were There

Thomas Mahnken

Director of External Programs

Senior Research Professor

Thayer McKell

Program Coordinator, Strategic Studies

Anne-Marie Mills

Research Assistant

Thomas Rid

Professor of Strategic Studies

Elliott Silverman

Research Assistant