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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. For the past 35 years, he has been a
consultant and regular lecturer on the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf for
the Departments of Defense and State. In addition to heading the National
Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, consulting, and lecturing, Dr. Anthony has
been an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign
Service’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies since 2006. There,
he developed and continues to teach a course for graduate students on
"Politics of the Arabian Peninsula,” the first such academic
semester-long course to be offered at any American university. In 2008 he
was the Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in
Cairo's HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin 'Abdalaziz Al-Sa'ud Center for
American Studies.
In
1983, Dr. Anthony received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the U.S.
Department of Defense's Institute for Security Assistance Management, one
of three granted to American Middle East specialists in the Institute's
history. In March 1989, the Kappa Alpha Order's National Executive
bestowed upon him its Distinguished Public Service Award for Excellence
"through a strenuous and useful Life of Service to others."
In 1993, he received the U.S. 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 knighted Dr. Anthony, bestowing upon him the Medal of the Order of
Ouissam Alaouite, the nation of Morocco's highest award for excellence. In
May 2008, he was presented the first-ever Local Giants Leadership Award by
the Rotary Club of the Nation's Capital.
A
member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1986, Dr. Anthony is a
frequent participant in its study groups on issues relating to the Arabian
Peninsula and Gulf regions and the broader Arab and Islamic world. He is
the only American to have been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the
former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. In 1971, he was
cosponsored by the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S.
Department of State as the sole American scholar to observe at firsthand
the process by which the British ceased administering the defense and
foreign relations for nine Arab states lining the coastal regions of
eastern Arabia and the Gulf. In 2006 he was elected Vice-President
and member of the Board of Directors of the International Foreign Policy
Association in Washington, D.C.
Dr.
Anthony has served as an international observer in all four of Yemen's
presidential and parliamentary elections and been the only American
invited to each of the Gulf Cooperation Council's Ministerial and 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). Since 1986 and continuing until the present, Dr. Anthony
has accompanied more than 200 Members of Congress, their chiefs of staff,
defense and foreign affairs advisers, and legislative and communications
directors on fact-finding missions to the Arab world. From 1996
until the present, he has also served as the principal scholar-escort for
delegations to various GCC countries, Egypt, and Yemen comprised of more
than 125 officers assigned to the staffs of the Commander, U.S. Central
Command, including Generals J.H. B. Peay III, Anthony C. Zinni, Tommy
Franks, John P. Abizaid, and Admiral William Fallon. He is the publisher
of record for Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Services (SUSRIS),
an electronic newsletter sent free of charge to more than 15,000
subscribers in the United States and abroad.
Dr.
Anthony is the author of three books, the editor of a fourth, and has
published more than 175 articles, essays, and monographs dealing with
America's interests and involvement in the Arab countries, the Middle
East, and the Islamic world. His best-known works are Arab
States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum; The
Middle East: Oil, Politics, and Development (editor and
co-author) and, together with J.E. Peterson, Historical
and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of
Eastern Arabia. His most recent book, The
United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation, was
published in 2002.
In
addition to being a founder of the annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers
Conferences, Dr. Anthony has been a founder, board member, and Secretary
of the U.S.-GCC Corporate Cooperation Committee; founding President of the
Middle East Educational Trust; co-founder of the Commission on
Israeli-Palestinian Peace; founding President of the Society for Gulf Arab
Studies; co-founder and board member of the National Commission to
Commemorate the 14th Centennial of Islam; and founder and former chairman
of the U.S.-Morocco Affairs Council.
For
nearly a decade, Dr. Anthony taught courses on the Arabian Peninsula and
the Gulf States at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies in Washington, D.C. From 1975-1988, he headed the Saudi
Arabia Studies Program for American personnel assigned to the Saudi
Arabia-U.S. Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation for the U.S.
Department of Treasury. He has been a Visiting and Adjunct Professor
at the Defense Intelligence College, 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. Since 1974, he has been Adjunct Professor at the Defense Institute
for Security Management.
Dr.
Anthony holds a B.A. in History from the Virginia Military Institute,
where he was elected president of his class all four years in addition to
being elected president of the student body his senior year. He also
earned a Master of Science in Foreign Service (With Distinction) from the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where,
in addition to being one of three University Scholars, he was inducted
into the National Political Science Honor Society. He holds a Ph.D.
in International Relations and Middle East Studies from the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies, where he held a National Defense
in Foreign Language Scholarship for Arabic, was awarded a Fulbright
Fellowship, and was appointed to the full time faculty in 1973 while still
a student.
Dr. Anthony is married to the former Cynthia Burns
McDonald and has twin sons.
For
more information: www.ncusar.org; www.susris.org; www.arabialink.org
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