Kenneth Pollack

Kenneth Michael Pollack born 1966 is an American former CIA intelligence analyst and commentator on Middle East politics and military affairs He has served on the National Security Council staff and has written several articles and books on international relations Currently he is the Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute1 He was previously a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute where he worked on Middle Eastern politicalmilitary affairs focusing in particular on Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries2 Before that he was Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution3 and a senior advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group a global business strategy firm