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Steve Grand is the executive director of the Network for Dialogue. Previously he was the executive director of the Middle East Strategy Task Force (which was chaired by Madeleine Albright and Stephen Hadley) at the Atlantic Council, where he also served as a senior fellow. He is the author of Understanding Tahrir Square: What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us about the Prospects for Arab Democracy (Brookings Press). For more than six years, he directed the Brookings' Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World. Previous positions include director of the Middle East Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute, director of programs at the German Marshall Fund, professional staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and founding executive director of the Civic Education Project. He has been a visiting professor at American University, Syracuse University, Erasmus University, University of Utrecht, Free University (Amsterdam), and Georgia State University (current). He received a Ph.D in International Relations from Harvard and B.A. in Government from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar. He serves on the board of the Middle East Democracy Center. He is a 2000 Henry Crown Fellow and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
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