Ross Harrison is a senior fellow and book series editor at the Middle East Institute (MEI). He is also a faculty member in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches courses on Middle East politics and US foreign policy in the Middle East. From 2004 to 2020, he was the Professor in the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Harrison annually teaches a course on strategy and international security to senior Georgian government officials at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi, Georgia, a program funded by the US Department of State.
He has published extensively on Middle Eastern regional dynamics in leading journals such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest. Mr. Harrison is the author of Strategic Thinking in 3D: A Guide for National Security, Foreign Policy and Business Professionals (Potomac Books, 2013), as well as the co-editor of From Chaos to Cooperation: Toward Regional Order in the Middle East (Middle East Institute, 2017) and Escaping the Conflict Trap: Toward Ending Civil Wars in the Middle East (Middle East Institute, 2019).
He holds an MA from the University of Pittsburgh.
