Elana DeLozier

Elana DeLozier is the Rubin Family Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she specializes in Yemen, the Gulf states, and nuclear weapons and proliferation. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the founder of The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs, a non-profit focused on making specialized knowledge more accessible. She spent eight years in the Middle East (until 2018) as a political analyst and trainer, including six years in the Gulf and two years in Lebanon. Prior to that, she served as the right hand to the commissioner of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau as well as an analyst on nuclear issues and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. She started her career in research at the Brookings Institution.

Ms. DeLozier appears frequently in the media discussing the internal dynamics of Yemen, events in the Gulf, and Iran's nuclear program. She has taught graduate courses on political analysis, nuclear proliferation, and counterterrorism at universities in Washington, New York, and Abu Dhabi.