Jerrold D Green

Early life

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he graduated with a B.A. with Distinction in politics (summa cum laude) from University of Massachusetts at Boston. He has both a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, where he specialized in Middle East politics. Green conducted research in Iran during the period of the Iranian Revolution as a fellow at the Tehran-based Iran Communications and Development Institute.

Green was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Cairo University in 1982. Green started his career as a professor in the Department of Political Science and Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. He then became a professor of political science and sociology at the University of Arizona, where he served as director for The Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1985 to 1997. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served on numerous study groups focusing on international policy, as well as track II initiatives with Iran and Libya. He has spoken at conferences and other gatherings around the world.

Career

In 1996, Green became the director at the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation, and then director of international programs and development at RAND in 1999. During that time, Green authored numerous pieces on issues ranging from NATO policy in the Mediterranean, US-Middle East relations, the security policies of Iran, and democracy and Islam in Afghanistan.

From 2004 to 2006, Green served as partner and executive vice president for international operations at Best Associates, a privately held merchant banking firm with global operations, and executive vice president for academic affairs for the Whitney International University System and the senior advisory board of Academic Partnerships, both based in Dallas, Texas. In 2006, Green returned to RAND, where he oversaw an attempt to broaden RAND's Middle East-based policy analysis work.

Green has lectured on six continents and has been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Science’s West Asian Studies Center in Beijing, China; a visiting lecturer at the Havana based Center for African and Middle East Studies, a fellow at the Australian Defence College, and delivered papers at conferences sponsored by the Iranian Institute of International Affairs in Tehran, Iran.

Since 2008, Green has served as the president and CEO of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He also is an International Medical Corps ambassador, member of the Middle East Institute of India International Advisory Board, an advisory board member of the Suu Foundation (headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi), and a research professor of communication and business at USC.

Green uses Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Persian in his work, and has lived abroad as a Fulbright Fellow in Egypt, three years in Israel, and conducted field research in Iran. He has visited virtually every other Middle Eastern country.

Green is a technical advisor to Activision Publishing in Santa Monica, California, where he consults on the highly successful Call of Duty series.

Advisory roles

He is currently on the United States Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel (where he was awarded the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Civilian Service Award), as well as a reserve deputy sheriff with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department after serving as a specialist reserve officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, where he advised on issues related to terrorism. He also serves on the board of directors of Falcon Waterfree Technologies, the board of directors of the California Club and as a member of the international advisory board of the Whitney International University System in Dallas. He is a member of the Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs Tourism Committee and is an International Medical Corps ambassador. Dr. Green is also part of the advisory council for the University of California-Berkeley Berkeley Program on Entrepreneurship and Development in the Middle East. He is also a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, as well as the advisory board of the Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Green previously served on the advisory committee of the Asia Society of Southern California as well as the board of Columbia University's Middle East Institute in New York.

President and CEO of the Pacific Council

In 2008, Green became the president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Council on International Policy, located in Los Angeles, California. Green has led three U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored delegations to Afghanistan and another to Iraq. He has also led Pacific Council fact-finding delegations to Argentina, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, and South Sudan. In addition, from 2009 to 2010 Green served as a member of a joint task force between the Pacific Council and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internationales (COMEXI) that looked at the U.S.–Mexican border. He has also represented the Pacific Council as an observer at the legal proceedings being conducted at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by the U.S. Department of Defense.

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