FPRI Names Aaron Stein Next Director of Middle East Program
Effective January 2, 2019, Aaron Stein will succeed Tally Helfont as Director of the Middle East Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Effective January 2, 2019, Aaron Stein will succeed Tally Helfont as Director of FPRI's Program on the Middle East.
Previously, Dr. Stein was a resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council, where he managed their Turkey-related research program, oversaw work on nonproliferation in the Middle East with a focus on Iran, and researched non-state actors in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq. He also hosts the Arms Control Wonk and the Turkey Wonk podcasts.
He was a doctoral fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (Switzerland), an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (London), and Nonproliferation Program Manager at the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (Istanbul).
Dr. Stein has published in such peer-reviewed journals as Survival and RUSI Journal, and in such periodicals as Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, and The American Interest.
He holds a BA in politics from the University of San Francisco and an MA in international policy studies with a specialization in nonproliferation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Dr. Stein received his PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean studies at Kings College, London.
"We are delighted to welcome Aaron Stein to the FPRI team," said FPRI President Alan Luxenberg, "and we are confident he will continue to enhance the capabilities of our growing Middle East Program."
About the Foreign Policy Research Institute
FPRI is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank located in Center City Philadelphia. Its mission is to bring the insights of scholarship to bear on the foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States. It seeks to educate the public, teach teachers, train students, and offer ideas to advance U.S. national interest based on a nonpartisan, geopolitical perspective that illuminates contemporary international affairs through the lens of history, geography and culture.
For more information about FPRI, please visit http://www.fpri.org or contact Eli Gilman at 215-732-3774 ext. 103.
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