Hudson Institute
Mike Doran is a distinguished expert in Near and Middle Eastern studies, currently serving as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute since 2014. Previous roles include Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Visiting Professor at New York University, and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department. Additionally, Mike Doran held the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the United States Department of Defense and served as Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa on the National Security Council. An academic background includes a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University and a Bachelor's Degree in History from Stanford University. Early teaching experience encompasses roles as an Assistant Professor at both Princeton University and the University of Central Florida.
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Hudson Institute
Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. Hudson Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary and collaborative studies in defense, international relations, economics, culture, science, technology, and law. Through publications, conferences and policy recommendations, we seek to guide global leaders in government and business. Since our founding in 1961 by the futurist Herman Kahn, Hudson’s perspective has been uniquely future-oriented and optimistic. Our research has stood the test of time in a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of China, and the advent of radicalism within Islam. Because Hudson sees the complexities within societies, we focus on the often-overlooked interplay among culture, demography, technology, markets, and political leadership. Our broad-based approach has, for decades, allowed us to present well-timed recommendations to leaders in government and business, domestically as well as abroad. Hudson Institute has grown steadily-both in prestige and resources-from its origins in Croton-on-Hudson, to its tenure in Indianapolis, and now as a leading international policy organization with offices in Washington and New York. In the 1970s, Hudson’s scholars helped turn the world away from the no-growth policies of the Club of Rome; in the early 1990s, we helped the newly-liberated Baltic nations become booming market economies; at home, we helped write the pioneering Wisconsin welfare reform law that became the model for successful national welfare reform in the mid-1990s. Today, as part of our research agenda, we are developing programs of political and economic reform to transform the Muslim world.