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Daniel Davis

(Ret.) Lt. Col. Daniel Davis is author of Eleventh Hour in 2020 America: How America's Foreign Policy Got Jacked Up - and How the Next Administration Can Fix It. He currently serves as Senior Fellow and Military Expert for Defense Priorities. Davis was deployed into combat zones four times in his career, beginning with Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Iraq in 2009 and Afghanistan twice (2005, 2011). He is widely published and was the recipient of the 2012 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-telling. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business News, BBC, and CNN.

Mandy Smithberger

Mandy Smithberger is the Director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight and has previously served as national security policy adviser to U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) There, she worked on passing key provisions of the Military Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act into law. Previously as an investigator with POGO, she was part of a team that received the Society of Professional Journalists'' Sunshine Award for contributions in the area of open government. As an expert on the Pentagon's revolving door, she has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and NPR, and has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Reuters, Politico, and Foreign Policy.

Mark Perry

Mark Perry is a senior analyst at the Quincy Institute, and is a widely published military and foreign policy reporter and award winning author. He has published ten books, including The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents (2017) and The Most Dangerous Man In America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur (2014), for which the Boston Globe named the best non-fiction book of 2014. Perry previously served as a senior foreign policy analyst and political director for Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. That campaign won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (Moderator)

Kelley Vlahos is senior advisor for the Quincy Institute and contributing editor at Responsible Statecraft. Previously, she served as executive editor at The American Conservative magazine, for which she has also been writing and reporting on the wars, foreign policy, veterans, and the military since 2007. She is currently a co-host of the Empire Has No Clothes podcast.

Rep. Barbara Lee

Congresswoman Barbara Lee was born in segregated El Paso, Texas. As a single mother raising two sons, she attended Mills College in Oakland, and later received her Masters in Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, Congresswoman Lee was elected to the California State Assembly, where she served until 1996 when she was elected to the State Senate. In 1998, she was elected to serve California's 9th congressional district (now the 13th) in a special election. Congresswoman Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, believing it would create a blank check for endless war, and an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War. Currently, she serves on the Budget Committee and the powerful Appropriations Committee, is co-chair of the Democratic Policy and Steering Committee, and is a member and former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich is the President of the Quincy Institute. He grew up in Indiana, graduated from West Point and Princeton, served in the army, became an academic, and is now a writer. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, among them: The New America Militarism (2005), The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008), Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010), America's War for the Greater Middle East (2016), and The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (January 2020). He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University and has held fellowships at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy in Berlin.

Mark Hertling

Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the US Army, retiring as the Commanding General, US Army Europe and Seventh Army. Previously, he was the Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad in 2003 to 2004, and he later commanded that same Division in Germany, preparing it to become the 30,000-strong US Task Force Iron in Northern Iraq from 2007 to 2009. Since retiring from the Army in 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, became a senior vice president at Florida Hospital, and serves as a national security, intelligence, and terrorism analyst for CNN.

Amber Smith

Amber Smith is the author of the recent book Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is a former US Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot and air mission commander in the 101st Airborne Division, and flew two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. After her service, she was appointed Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Trump Administration and later, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Outreach in Public Affairs. In addition to overseeing the DoD's community service initiatives, she served as the Secretary's principal liaison to the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, national veterans and military service organizations, and national defense-related organizations.

Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich is the President of the Quincy Institute. He is a graduate of West Point, a retired Army colonel, and Vietnam war veteran. He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University, and author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, among them: The New American Militarism (2005), The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008), Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010), America's War for the Greater Middle East (2016), and his latest, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (January 2020).

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Moderator

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute and a Contributing Editor at ResponsibleStatecraft.org. For the past three years, Vlahos served as The American Conservative's executive editor, and she continues to co-host the magazine''s Empire Has No Clothes podcast. She also organized the magazine's major annual foreign policy conference. Vlahos previously served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on US war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007.

Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New Orleans, and the American University in Cairo. He began his writing career at The Race Relations Reporter in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1971. In 1980, Wright went to work for Texas Monthly. He also became a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. In 1992, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he has published a number of prize-winning articles, including two which won National Magazine Awards.

Tawakkol Karman

Tawakkol Karman is the co-founder of Women Journalists Without Chains, which promotes freedom of expression and democratic rights. From 2007 to 2010, she led demonstrations and sit-ins in Tahrir Square, Sana''a and participated in the 2011 protests against ruling regimes that took place in a number of Arab countries. Her involvement in demonstrations and actions critical of the Yemeni regime led to her arrest and murder threats. She has promoted the struggle for democracy and human rights in Yemen at the international level, including at the UN and is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Annelle Sheline

Annelle Sheline is a Research Fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa. Sheline is completing a book manuscript on the strategic use of religious authority in the Arab monarchies since 9/11, focusing on the cases of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, and Oman. Her non-academic writing has appeared in The Nation, Politico, and Foreign Policy.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Moderator

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute and a Contributing Editor at ResponsibleStatecraft.org. For the past three years, Vlahos served as The American Conservative's executive editor and co-hosted the Empire Has No Clothes podcast. She also organized the magazine's major annual foreign policy conference. Vlahos previously served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on U.S. war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007.

Heung-kyu Kim

Heung-Kyu Kim is a professor at Ajou University. He received his BA and MA in international relations at Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is a founder of the China Policy Institute and serves as Director and Professor in the department of political science at Ajou University. He previously served for six years as Professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), MOFA. He was a visiting researcher at Georgetown University in 2018. Dr. Kim''s current assignments include board membership at the National Security Council in the Blue House, Presidential Commission on Policy-Planning, Presidential Unification Advisory Council, National Assembly, National Defense Reform Commission in the Ministry of National Defense, and Reform Commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, Dr. Kim was an executive consultant in the State Affairs Planning Advisory Committee in the Moon Jae-in administration and a regular participant at ROK-China Strategic Dialogues and at Korea-China Professional Commission hosted by the MOFA.

Jung-sup Kim

Jung-sup Kim is a senior research fellow at the Sejong Institute. Before joining the Sejong Institute, Dr. Kim, Jungsup served for 27 years as a civil servant at the Ministry of National Defense of the ROK government. During this time, he held various positions of director for defense budget, military organization, and international policy. In addition, he served as a staff member of the National Security Council(NSC) in presidential office for 4 years. Most recently, Dr. Kim was Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of National Defense. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1993 and earned Ph.D in International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2005.

Michael Swaine

Michael Swaine, director of QI's East Asia program, is one of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies. He comes to QI from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, US-China relations, and East Asian international relations. Swaine served as a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Swaine has authored and edited more than a dozen books and monographs, including Remaining Aligned on the Challenges Facing Taiwan (with Ryo Sahashi; 2019), Conflict and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Strategic Net Assessment (with Nicholas Eberstadt et al; 2015) and many journal articles and book chapters. Swaine is directing, along with Iain Johnston of Harvard University, a multi-year crisis prevention project with Chinese partners. He also advises the US government on Asian security issues. Swaine received his doctorate in government from Harvard University and his bachelor's degree from George Washington University.

Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is a Senior Research Fellow in the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. Her research focuses on US foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific region, with an emphasis on alliances and North Korea. Previously, Lee led the Council of Korean Americans (CKA), a national leadership organization for Americans of Korean descent. Prior to CKA, Lee was a Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum in Honolulu. Previously, Lee was a senior manager at The Asia Group, LLC, a strategy and capital advisory firm. She began her career on Capitol Hill, first as a professional staff member handling the Asia region for the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and then as a senior legislative assistant on international security and trade for a member of Congress on the Ways and Means Committee. Lee's analysis has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, USA Today, the Washington Times, and The Nation. Lee serves on the board of International Student Conferences, Inc., a US nonprofit that supports cultural exchange between students from the United States, South Korea, Japan, and China. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of CKA. Lee holds a BA in Political Science from Wellesley College and an AM in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University.

Jung-Yeop Woo, Moderator

Jung-Yeop Woo is a director of the Center for American Studies at the Sejong Institute. He studied at Seoul National University, Georgetown University and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests are international security, US foreign policy, and the US-South Korea relations. Previously, Dr. Woo was a research fellow and director of the Center for Security Policy at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. He was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Foreign Intervention in Civil Wars (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). His recent publication in academic journals includes "Changing Security Environment in Northeast Asia and South Korea's Security Dilemma" (2019), "North Korea's Incomplete Denuclearization and Issues of ROK-US Alliance" (2019), and "Can We Predict North Korea-US Relations?" (2018).

Steven Simon

Steven Simon is professor in the Practice of International Relations at Colby College, following stints as the John J. McCloy '16 Professor of History at Amherst College and lecturer in government at Dartmouth College. Prior to this, he was executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies for the US and Middle East. From 2011 to 2012 he served on the National Security Council staff as senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs. He also worked on the NSC staff 1994 - 1999 on counterterrorism and Middle East security policy. These assignments followed a fifteen-year career at the U.S. Department of State.
 

Michael Doran

Michael Doran is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council. He also served in the Bush administration as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. Before coming to Hudson, Doran was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also held teaching positions at New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Central Florida. 

Rim Turkmani

Rim Turkmani is a research fellow at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She directs the Syria conflict research program at the unit. Her policy-oriented research work focuses on identity politics, legitimate governance, transforming war economy it into peace economy and the relationship between local and external drivers of the conflict. She is a member of the Women''s Advisory Board to the UN special envoy to Syria and sits on the advisory board of airwars.org which monitor the International coalition strikes against ISIS. 

Joshua Landis (Moderator)

Joshua Landis is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and Sandra Mackey Chair and professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma in the College of International Studies and director of the Center for Middle East Studies. He writes and manages SyriaComment.com, a daily newsletter on Syrian politics that attracts some 50,000 page-reads a month. He is past president of the Syrian Studies Association. 

Mark Hertling

Mark Hertling served for 37 years in the US Army, retiring as the Commanding General, US Army Europe and Seventh Army. Previously, he was the Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad in 2003 to 2004, and he later commanded that same Division in Germany, preparing it to become the 30,000-strong US Task Force Iron in Northern Iraq from 2007 to 2009. Since retiring from the Army in 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, became a senior vice president at Florida Hospital, and serves as a national security, intelligence, and terrorism analyst for CNN.

Amber Smith

Amber Smith is the author of the recent book Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is a former US Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter pilot and air mission commander in the 101st Airborne Division, and flew two combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. After her service, she was appointed Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the Trump Administration and later, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Outreach in Public Affairs. In addition to overseeing the DoD's community service initiatives, she served as the Secretary's principal liaison to the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, national veterans and military service organizations, and national defense-related organizations.

Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich is the President of the Quincy Institute. He is a graduate of West Point, a retired Army colonel, and Vietnam war veteran. He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University, and author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books, among them: The New American Militarism (2005), The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008), Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010), America's War for the Greater Middle East (2016), and his latest, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (January 2020).

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Moderator

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute and a Contributing Editor at ResponsibleStatecraft.org. For the past three years, Vlahos served as The American Conservative's executive editor, and she continues to co-host the magazine''s Empire Has No Clothes podcast. She also organized the magazine's major annual foreign policy conference. Vlahos previously served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on US war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007.

Andrew Small

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund's Asia Program. His research focuses on China's foreign relations and his book The China-Pakistan Axis is the preeminent work on Pakistan's most important foreign partnership. Previously, he worked in the German Marshall Fund's Brussels office, as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre''s Beijing office, as a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and an ESU scholar in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He received his M.A. from Balliol College, University of Oxford. Follow him on Twitter @ajwsmall.

Ammara Durrani

Ammara Durrani is a senior research fellow at the Jinnah Institute who has served in various roles in the public and private development sectors, including management and adviser roles at the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd., and USAID Pakistan. She has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad and received the Daniel Pearl Fellowship for journalism. She holds and M. Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and an M.A.and B.A. in General History from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Follow her on Twitter @ammaradurrani.

Adam Weinstein

Adam Weinstein is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute. He previously worked for KPMG's international trade practice. Adam's current research focuses on security, trade, and rule of law in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is a member of the American Pakistan Foundation's Leadership Council and has presented at various conferences in Pakistan. He received a J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law with a concentration in international law and transitional justice. Adam served as a US Marine and deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. Follow him on Twitter @AdamNoahWho.

Michael Kugelman, Moderator

Michael Kugelman is the Asia program deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he focuses on US relations with Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan. He frequently publishes commentary in top policy outlets and has published policy briefs, journal articles, and book chapters on a variety of South Asian issues. He received his M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and B.A. from American University's School of International Service. Follow him on Twitter @michaelkugelman.