Dr. Stephen Grand is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, where he previously directed the Middle East Strategy Task Force. In 2019, he served as a visiting professor at Erasmus University and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, where he served as director from 2006 to 2013. He recently published a book, Understanding Tahrir Square: What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us about the Prospects for Arab Democracy. From 2004 to 2006, he was director of the Aspen Institute’s Middle East Strategy Group. He has served as an adjunct professor at American University and Syracuse University, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Dr. Grand serves as chairman of the board of the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. Follow Dr. Grand on Twitter @StephenRGrand.
Explore some of Dr. Grand’s recent commentary:
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Grand in American Purpose: Picking up the Pieces — American Purpose, 11/02/20
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Assessing Saudi Vision 2030: A 2020 review — Atlantic Council, 6/17/20
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The Khashoggi Killing Through Saudi Eyes — Atlantic Council, 3/21/19
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Saudi’s Vision 2030 Continues to Solicit Concerns — Atlantic Council, 9/11/18
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America’s Foreign Policy Power Is Changing Under Trump — The National Interest, 9/30/18
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Donald Trump Will Design a New Middle East — Foreign Policy, 2/21/17