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is an attorney and specialist in the areas of U.S. Middle East policy and reform in the Arab world. She served most recently as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (2005-2006). Her responsibilities included designing and managing US Government programs to promote democracy in the Arab world. Cheney served previously as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs (2002-2004), at U.S. AID (1989-1993), and as an attorney in private practice and at the International Finance Corporation.

an expert on Iraq, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Middle East and Persian Gulf geopolitics, security, and economics, is adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Senor is an analyst for Fox News and a founding partner of Rosemont Capital. From 2003 to 2004, Senor served as a Pentagon and White House advisor based in Doha, Qatar at U.S. Central Command Forward, and later based in Kuwait and Iraq, where he worked for both the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). He was chief spokesman and senior advisor for the Coalition.

is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served in the US Foreign Service for 27 years until his retirement in April 2008. He was Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005-2008, the nation's highest-ranking career diplomat. He was US Ambassador to NATO from 2001-2005.

is an expert on Middle Eastern political-military affairs, with emphasis on Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other areas in the Persian Gulf. He is currently a senior fellow and director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East (2008).