Lobel, Aaron
United States

Aaron Lobel founded America Abroad Media (AAM) and serves as the organization's president and chairman of the board, as well as executive producer of America Abroad and AAM Television. Lobel is assisted by a distinguished advisory board of senior policy makers, intellectuals, and members of Congress. Prior to founding America Abroad Media, Lobel was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.; National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; and a National Security Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he edited Presidential Judgment: Foreign Policy Decision Making in the White House (Hollis Press 2001). Lobel currently serves on the Advisory Board of Business for Diplomatic Action and of Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE). He received a Ph.D. in International Affairs from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he was also awarded the University's top teaching award, the Joseph P. Levenson Prize.

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Lord, Kristin
United States

Kristin Lord is Associate Dean for Strategy, Research, and External Relations at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a Nonresident Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, where she convenes the science and technology working group of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum. In 2005-2006, Lord served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and Special Adviser to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. She is the author of Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security Democracy or Peace, (SUNY Press, 2006), Power and Conflict in an Age of Transparency, edited with Bernard I. Finel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), and numerous book chapters and articles.

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Lynch, Marc
United States

Marc Lynch is associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He previously taught at Williams College and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is the author of two books, Voices of the New Arab Public (2006) and State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity (1999). He has published articles about the Arab media, Arab public opinion, Islamic movements, Iraq and other topics in a wide range of journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Wilson Quarterly, The National Interest, Politics and Society, and the European Journal of International Relations. He also runs the influential Middle East politics blog Abu Aardvark.

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