Elana DeLozier

Elana DeLozier was the Rubin Family Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy from 2018-2022, where she specialized in Yemen, the Gulf states, and nuclear weapons and proliferation. She also taught a graduate political analysis course at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Ms. DeLozier appeared frequently in the media discussing the internal dynamics of Yemen, events in the Gulf, and Iran's nuclear program. She spent eight years in the Middle East (until 2018) as a political analyst and educator, 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 a counterterrorism and nuclear proliferation analyst. She started her career in research at the Brookings Institution.

In 2022, she founded The Sage Institute for Foreign Affairs, a non-profit focused on making specialized knowledge more accessible. She also teaches graduate courses on political analysis and foreign policy at the University of Virginia.