Charles W. Dunne is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington D.C., and a scholar with the Middle East Institute, also in Washington. Prior to that, he was Freedom House’s Director of the Middle East and North Africa programs, in which he focused on human rights and democracy promotion in the region. Before joining Freedom House, he spent 24 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, with overseas tours in Cairo, Jerusalem, and Madras (Chennai), India. He was Foreign Policy Adviser to the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy at the Joint Staff in the Pentagon (2007-2008), and Director for Iraq at the National Security Council from 2005-2007. He served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, where he contributed to the development of presidential initiatives to advance political reform and democracy in the Broader Middle East and North Africa. He is a member of the Democracy and Human Rights Working Group of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
