Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq., Senior Fellow.  An attorney, decorated intelligence officer and noted specialist on Islamic law, ideology and related strategic information programs, Mr. Coughlin integrates experience in international law, intelligence, strategic communications and high-level project management in both the national defense and private sectors to develop unique perspectives, assessments and training packages relating to the intersection of national security and law. Often cited as the Pentagon's leading expert on Islamic law, Coughlin is in demand as a lecturer at leading Defense training institutions, including the Naval War College, Marine Corps HQ-Quantico, and at Staff, Command and Division levels, as well as for the FBI and other agencies and private sector groups.  A Major in the United States Army (res.), assigned to USCENTCOM, with a military intelligence specialty, Coughlin has served in a strategic communications role in CENTCOM-Doha. U.S. assignments have included attachment to the Pentagon's National Military Joint Intelligence Center, the National Security Council's Interagency Perception Management Threat Panel, and culminating in his assignment to the intelligence staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Coughlin's private sector career has focused on international law, competitive intelligence and the development and provision of open source, classified and proprietary commercial data and information products and programs at leading publishing houses such as Lexis-Nexis/Reed Elsevier and West Group/WestLaw. He is Vice President of Strategic Communication Initiatives for the Strategic Engagement Group.

Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu (Ret.), Senior Fellow. Mr. Cucullu is a former Special Forces lieutenant colonel with more than four decades of experience dealing with the tumultuous region of East Asia, including North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and Southeast Asia. His best-selling book, Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin, has been acclaimed as one of the best insights into the convoluted, long-running conflict between South and North Korea. He is a regular contributor to Front Page Magazine, Tech Central Station, and Human Events Online. His articles appear often in The American Enterprise magazine as well as other electronic and print media. He has contributed to the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Jerusalem Post and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel and was on-camera analyst for WABC Channel 7 in New York City during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mr. Cucullu's latest work, Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay is an essential contribution to a deeply misunderstood topic.

Nonie Darwish, Senior Fellow. Ms. Darwish is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Her second book is Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Her speech topics cover human rights, with emphasis on women’s rights and minority rights in the Middle East. Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army lieutenant general, who, when assassinated by the Israeli army in 1956, was called a “shahid” by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, although Darwish blames “the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth” for the assassination. In 1978, she moved with her husband to the United States, and converted to Christianity there. After September 11, 2001 she has written on Islam-related topics.

Michael J. Del Rosso, Senior Fellow.  Michael Del Rosso is an accomplished technology executive whose career spans 30 years. He has served as CEO and CTO of large public technology companies and early stage companies. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), past Chairman of the IEEE-USA Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC), a 2006 Lincoln Fellow at The Claremont Institute where he is presently Research Fellow in National Security Policy, Senior Fellow for Homeland and National Security at the Center for Security Policy, and has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).  He is also co-author of The Center for Security Policy's recently published book, Shariah: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II).  Mr. Del Rosso has contributed to Department of Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and information security initiatives, Congressional initiatives such as the National Security Study Group and the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, and has designed and implemented technology solutions for the commercial, intelligence, and defense marketplaces.

 Paula A. DeSutter, Senior Fellow. Ms. DeSutter is the former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation. The Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation has principal responsibility for the overall supervision of all matters relating to the verification of and compliance with international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments. Ms. DeSutter brings to her position an extensive background in verification and a career focus on national security and intelligence. She served for over four years as a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Ms. DeSutter was professional staff liaison to Senator Jon Kyl and was responsible for legislation and oversight of intelligence collection, analysis and activities related to proliferation, terrorism, arms control, the Persian Gulf States, India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan. Prior to her work in the Senate, Ms. DeSutter held numerous positions in the Verification and Intelligence Bureau in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). She was selected to represent ACDA as a student at the National War College, then returned to the National Defense University as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at its Center for Counter-Proliferation Research. Ms. DeSutter holds an MA in International Relations, an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College, an MA in Economics, and a BA in Political Science. Her work at the National War College earned her the President's Strategic Vision Award for Excellence in Research and Writing, and she was a Distinguished Graduate. Ms. DeSutter's publications include Denial and Jeopardy: Deterring Iranian Use of NBC Weapons (NDU Press, 1998).

Manda Ervin, Senior Fellow.  During the Iranian Islamic revolution, Manda Ervin witnessed the execution of many innocent people, including her high school principal who was murdered because she was a woman and the secretary of education.  Ms. Ervin came to the United States as a political refugee on June 17th, 1980, became a citizen two years later and began her fight for human rights in Iran.  She is the founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women a group which has deep connections within the Iranian diaspora and within Iran.  She works to bring the West's attention to the plight of Iranian women under Islamic Sharia laws.  She has testified to the Congressional hearings and  briefings, Helsinki Commission and spoken at the United Nations. In February of 2008, Mrs. Ervin was appointed by the President of the United States as the United States' Delegate to the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women.  She almost single-handedly gathered the support to pass a 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution on the human rights of the women of Iran. She is frequently consulted by Members of Congress considering resolutions and legislation on Iran policy and human rights.  As an analyst and writer, she has been published by many online political magazines, like the Hudson Institute, Family Security Matters, National Review and others. She speaks on TV and radio programs, nationally and internationally, including CNN, BBC, Radio France, VOA, Radio America and cable televisions stations which broadcast into Iran from California.  She also speaks at universities and conferences on the history of American/Iranian relations, European/Middle Eastern history, human rights, and Islamic Shari'a laws.

Cynthia Farahat, Senior Fellow.  Ms. Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. In 2008-2009, she was program coordinator and program officer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, a multi-national free market think tank. She was a founder of the Masr El-Om (Mother Egypt) Party and was a member of its political committee (2004-2006). She has published in National Review, Middle East Quarterly, and in other publications in both English and Arabic. In December 2011, Ms. Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the US House of Representatives on the roots of the persecution of the Coptic Christian minority in her native Egypt. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy.

Kevin D. Freeman, Senior Fellow.  Mr. Freeman, CFA, is the founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investment Counsel. In 1990, he wrote a business plan for Sir John Templeton and was hand-picked by him to help build the Templeton Private Client group, which managed nearly $2.5 billion in global markets within a decade. One of the world's leading experts on economic warfare and financial terrorism, Freeman authored the report "Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses" for the Department of Defense in 2009 and has briefed members of Congress, U.S. Senators, and past and present members of the CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, Justice Department, and state and local law enforcement. In his book Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again, Mr. Freeman unveils how all the evidence - including motive, means, and opportunity - points to America's foreign enemies as deliberately pushing our economy over the brink. He argues that our financial system is profoundly vulnerable to financial terrorism, and that we are being targeted for further and even more destructive attacks by our enemies, who want to cripple America as the world's leading economy.

Clare M. Lopez, Senior Fellow. Ms. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, homeland security, national defense, and counterterrorism issues. Lopez began her career as an operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving domestically and abroad for 20 years in a variety of assignments, acquiring extensive expertise in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation issues with a career regional focus on the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Ms. Lopez is a Professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. Formerly, she was Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee, a Washington, DC think tank, from 2005-2006. She has served as a Senior Scientific Researcher at the Battelle Memorial Institute; a Senior Intelligence Analyst, Subject Matter Expert, and Program Manager at HawkEye Systems, LLC.; and previously produced Technical Threat Assessments for U.S. Embassies at the Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, where she worked as a Senior Intelligence Analyst for Chugach Systems Integration. Ms. Lopez received a B.A. in Communications and French from Notre Dame College of Ohio and an M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She completed Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virginia before declining a commission in order to join the CIA. Ms. Lopez is a member of the Advisory Board for the Intelligence Analysis and Research program and guest lecturer at her undergraduate alma mater, Notre Dame College of Ohio; she also has been a Visiting Researcher and guest lecturer on counterterrorism, national defense, and international relations at Georgetown University. Ms. Lopez is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on subjects related to Iran and the Middle East and the co-author of two published books on Iran. She is the author of an acclaimed paper for the Center, The Rise of the Iran Lobby.

Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow. Mr. Milloy is the founder and publisher of JunkScience.com; a co-founder and portfolio manager of the first Free Enterprise Action Fund  (the first conservative/libertarian activist mutual fund); a long-time columnist for FoxNews.com; and a consultant on environment and public health policy issues. Mr. Milloy frequently appears on radio and TV, including shows ranging from Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck to CNBC's Squawkbox to Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Mr. Milloy holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences and a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws in Securities Regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Milloy has testified on risk assessment and Superfund before the U.S. Congress; and has lectured before numerous organizations. In addition to more than 500 columns and articles published in a variety of newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, and major online media, Mr. Milloy is most recently the author of the Amazon.com best-selling book, "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them" (Regnery 2009). 

Dr. Robert Zubrin, Senior Fellow.  Dr. Zubrin is the founder and President of the Mars Society, as well as a member of the organization's Board of Directors. Dr. Zubrin is also President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company located in Lakewood, Colorado. Formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, he holds a Masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. Viewed as a respected author and a renowned expert on Mars, Dr. Zubrin has testified in recent years before several government committees and in 2009 spoke in front of the Augustine Commission on the subject of the future of America's human space flight program. He is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, American Enterprise, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.