Col. David Des Roches
ديفيد دي روش

David B. Des Roches is Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) at National Defense University, where he specializes in countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf Cooperation Council Regional Security, Border Security, Weapons Transfers, Missile Defense, Counterinsurgency, Terrorism and emerging trends. 

He joined NESA in 2011 after serving the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy in numerous positions, including as Director of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, the DoD liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, the Senior Country Director for Pakistan, the NATO Operations Director (where he drafted the NATO comprehensive approach directive), the Deputy Director for Peacekeeping, and the spokesman for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.  Prior to that, he served in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy as an International Law Enforcement Analyst and Special Assistant for Strategy. 

Professor Des Roches holds advanced degrees from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and Kings College London, which he attended as a British Marshall Scholar.  He also holds an advanced degree from the U.S. Army War College, and a bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he was selected to Phi Kappa Phi. He is also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, the US Government education center for senior civil servants. He is a non-resident academic fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a non-resident senior fellow at the Gulf International Forum, and senior international affairs fellow at the National Council on US Arab Relations. 

Dr. John Duke Anthony
د. جون ديوك أنثوني

Dr. John Duke Anthony is the Founder of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. On June 21, 2000, H.M. King Muhammad VI of Morocco knighted Dr. Anthony, bestowing upon him the Medal of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, the nation of Morocco's highest award for excellence. Dr. Anthony currently serves on the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy’s Subcommittee on Sanctions.

Dr. Anthony is the only American to have been invited to each of the Gulf Cooperation Council's Ministerial and Heads of State Summits since the GCC's inception in 1981. (The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).

In addition to being the founder of the Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, now in its 28th year, Dr. Anthony has also been co-founder and board member of the National Commission to Commemorate the 14th Centennial of Islam; a founder, board member, and Secretary of the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee; founding President of the Middle East Educational Trust; co-founder of the Commission on Israeli-Palestinian Peace; founding President of the Society for Gulf Arab Studies; and founder and former chairman of the U.S.-Morocco Affairs Council.

Dr. Anthony holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Middle East Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., where he held a National Defense in Foreign Language Scholarship for Arabic, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and was appointed to SAIS' full time faculty in 1973 while still a student.

Dr. Anthony passed his proficiency exam in French at the Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1966 and his proficiency exam in Arabic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1969 following study there as well as at Princeton University and the American University in Cairo's Center for Arabic Study Abroad.

Kirsten Fontenrose
كيرستن فونتنروز

Kirsten Fontenrose is Director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council where she  leads the security pillar within the Middle East programs. This effort focuses on the Middle East and North Africa’s ongoing security challenges, geopolitical competition, and the transatlantic community’s role in promoting security and stability to allow for political and economic development.

Fontenrose has twenty years of experience working with the national security apparatuses of nations in the Middle East and Africa from positions within the US Department of Defense, Department of State, White House, private industry, and non-profit sector. She served as Senior Director for Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, leading the development of US policy toward nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President for Global Relations at the Sonoran Policy Group.
Previously, Fontenrose led the Middle East and Africa team in the interagency Global Engagement Center, built relationships with military officers and diplomats from the Middle East and South Asia for the Near East Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, which she helped establish. Her career began in the non-profit sector at the National Council on US-Arab Relations, and in the private sector working on US-Arab business projects with Arthur Houghton Associates.

Fontenrose’s editorials have been published in The Washington Post and Al-Anba. She has been interviewed on CNN, Fox News, BBC, MSNBC, PBS Newshour, NPR, and Voice of America and has been quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many others. She holds a BA in Middle East studies from the College of William and Mary, an MA in Middle East studies from Indiana University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Patrick Mancino
باتريك مانسينو
Executive Vice President & Director of Development of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations

Adnan Abdulaziz Al-Bahar
عدنان عبدالعزيز احمد البحر

Mr. Al Bahar has served as the Chairman and Managing Director of The International Investor – Kuwait, a regional investment bank in Kuwait, since 1992. Mr. Al Bahar began his career with Burgan Bank, before becoming the General Manager of KFH from 1986-1990. Subsequently, he pursued his career in London for two years from 1990 to 1992 as the Managing Director for Al Rajhi Bank of Saudi Arabia. In 1992 he established The International Investor – Kuwait.

Throughout his career, Mr. Al Bahar has served on many national and regional Boards & Committees. He has been a member of the Higher Planning Board, served as Advisor to the Kuwaiti Parliament’s Finance Committee, was a Board Member of Kuwait Stock Exchange, a Board Member of the Kuwait Investment Authority, and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Unit Investment Trust -Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah among others.

Mr. Al Bahar holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business from the American College in Switzerland and a Banking Studies Diploma from Kuwait.

Dr. Ali Al-Tarrah
د. علي أحمد الطراح

Ali Al Zalzalah
علي عبدالمجيد عبدالرزاق الزلزلة

Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Khalifa
الشيخ / خليفة بن حمد آل خليفة

Marzouq Khaled Boodai
مرزوق خالد عبدالله بودي

Qais Abdullah AlJoan
قيس عبدالله محمد الجوعان

Talal Khalid AlNisf
طلال خالد نصف النصف

Yousef Abdulaziz AlQatami
يوسف عبدالعزيز يوسف القطامي

Naser Salah Boresli
ناصر صلاح بورسلي

Naser Salah Boresli has joined as an advisor in monitoring, auditing and governance affairs.

He has more than 11 years of experience in the field of monitoring, banking and investment companies. He holds a BA in Finance and Financial Institutions.

Higher Diploma in Islamic Finance.

Master of Business Administration.

A Certified Islamic Specialist in Shariah Auditing (CIBAFI).

ICA International Advanced Certificate in Regulatory Compliance

ICA International Advanced Certificate in Anti Money Laundering

Member of the Kuwait Transparency Society

Member of the Kuwait Economic Society

 

انضم الباحث الكويتي ناصر صلاح بورسلي كمستشار المركز في شؤون الرقابة والحوكمة. يملك خبرة اكثر من ١١ عاما في مجال الرقابة و البنوك و شركات الاستثمار. كما اجتاز عدة دورات مهنية تخصصية في المجال المصرفي و الاستثماري و المالي. بالاضافةلكونه محلل فني معتمد (من المعهد الامريكي للبحوث الاقتصادية) يحمل بكالريوس تمويل و منشآت مالية الدبلوم العالي بالتمويل الاسلامي ماجستير ادارة الاعمال واختصاصي تدقيق شرعي معتمد CIBAFI ويحمل الشهادة الدولية المتقدمه في الالتزام الرقابي ICA والشهادة الدولية المتقدمه في مكافحة غسل الأموال ICA عضو جمعية الشفافية عضو الجمعية الاقتصادية الكويتية