Mr. Steven Simon – Council on Foreign Relations

Mr. Steven Simon is the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Council, he specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation. He came to RAND from London, where he was the deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Carol Deane senior fellow in U.S. security studies. Before moving to Britain in 1999, Mr. Simon served at the White House for over five years as director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats. He has published widely in leading foreign policy journals and newspapers and is a frequent commentator on radio and television. In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, he has been a university fellow at Brown University and Oxford University. Simon is the coauthor of several critically-acclaimed books including The Age of Sacred Terror, and The Next Attack, and he is the coeditor with Toby Dodge of Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change.