Founding President and Chief
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Dr. John Duke Anthony is the founding
President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Council on
U.S.-Arab Relations and is a founder, board member, and Secretary of the
U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee. He is also the founding
president of the Middle East Educational Trust, a founder of the
Commission on Israeli-Palestinian Peace, the founding president of the
Society for Gulf Arab Studies, a founder and board member of the
National Commission to Commemorate the 14th Centennial of Islam, founder
of the annual U.S. Mideast Policymakers Conference, and chairman of the
U.S.-Morocco Affairs
Council. For the past 25 years, Dr. Anthony has been a consultant and
regular lecturer on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf for the
Departments of Defense and State. For nearly a decade, he taught courses
on the Middle East at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies in Washington, DC. He has also been a Visiting and Adjunct
Professor at the Defense Intelligence College, the Defense Institute for
Security Assistance Management, the Woodrow Wilson School of Government
and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, the Universities of
Pennsylvania and Texas, and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
In 1983, Dr. Anthony received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the
Department of Defense�s Institute for Security Assistance Management,
one of two granted to Middle East specialists in the Institute�s
history. In 1993, he received the Department of State�s Distinguished
Visiting Lecturer Award, one of three awarded over a span of 25 years in
recognition of his preparation of American diplomatic and defense
personnel assigned to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf states. In
1994, he received the Stevens Award for Outstanding Contributions to
American-Arab Understanding. On June 21, 2000, H.M. King Muhammad VI of
Morocco, on the occasion of his official visit to the United States,
personally knighted Dr. Anthony, bestowing upon him the medal of the
Order of Ouissam Alaouite, the nation of Morocco�s highest award for
excellence.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Anthony is a frequent
participant in its study groups on issues relating to the Gulf region
and the broader Islamic world. He is the only American to have served as
an international observer in each of the parliamentary elections in
Yemen and the only non-Arab to have been invited to each of the Gulf
Cooperation Council�s Heads of State Summits since the GCC�s
inception in 1981. (The GCC is comprised of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar,
Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates). Dr. Anthony is the
author of three books and more than 100 articles and monographs dealing
with America�s interests and involvement in the Arab countries, the
Middle East, and the Islamic world. His best-known work is Arab States
of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum. His most recent book,
The United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation, was published in
2002.
Dr. Anthony holds a B.A. in History from the Virginia Military
Institute, a Master of Science in Foreign Service (With Distinction)
from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, where he was a University Scholar, and a Ph.D. in
International Relations and Middle East Studies from the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies.
Dr. Anthony is married to the former Cynthia Burns McDonald, the
Director of the Washington Office of the American University in Cairo.
He is the father of twin sons, James Coleman Anthony II and John
Burroughs Anthony.
Source:
National Council on US- Arab Relations
As of September, 2007
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