Top Practitioners Join Washington Programs

JON B. ALTERMAN is senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS in 2002, he served as a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and from 2009–2019 he served as a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel.

STEPHEN LENNON is coordinator for the International Organization for Migration’s efforts to support Afghan evacuees in the United States. He previously held several roles at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, including as the director of the Office of Transition Initiatives. While there, he advised on organizational transformation, policy and collaboration.

TAMMY S. SCHULTZ is director of national security and a professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Marine Corps War College. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Additionally, she works as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and conducts communication plenaries and simulations for foreign services officers with the State Department.