Guests

Daniel Balke | fp21 Executive Board member

Daniel is a Ph.D. student in political science at Berkeley and a Strategy and Operations Officer in the Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Group at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. He previously worked as an assistant to former World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and as an international economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Aaron Faust | fp21 Strategy and Design

Aaron holds a Ph.D. in Middle East History and Statecraft and is the author of The Ba'thification of Iraq: Saddam Hussein's Totalitarianism. He has served in several positions at the State Department, working mainly on Iraq, Syria, and counter-ISIS issues. He is currently a Foreign Affairs Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.