Zeyno Baran Joins Us As Contributing Expert

By Andrew Cochran

We're pleased to announce Zeyno Baran, Director of International Security and Energy Programs at The Nixon Center in Washington, is joining us today as a Contributing Expert. Ms. Baran is an expert on Central Asian terrorism and has written important analyses on Hizb Ut-Tahrir, the key terrorist group in that region and a �conveyor belt� and inspiration for Islamic terrorists elsewhere, including UBL and Al-Zarqawi (downloadable Acrobat file). Prior to joining the Nixon Center in January 2003, Ms. Baran was Director of the Caucasus Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 1998, Ms. Baran established the Georgia Forum at CSIS, the only such program in the United States that focused exclusively on this strategic country and its relations with the U.S. and Russia. Ms. Baran received her M.A. in international economic development and her B.A. in political science from Stanford University. Her work on the compatibility of Islam and democracy received the Firestone Medal for Stanford's most outstanding political science/international relations honors thesis in 1996.

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