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Brian Till was a Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program where he primarily worked with Middle East and Latin American policy issues.

Mr. Till blogs for the Atlantic and previously wrote a nationally syndicated column for the Creators Syndicate. His columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, the Dallas Morning News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer among other papers. He covered the 2008 presidential campaign, attending dozens of events and debates in California, Nevada, Iowa, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. He has been a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation and has held internships with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, and the Treatment Action Campaign in Cape Town, South Africa.

His book, Conversations With Power, a series of interviews with former global leaders, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the US, UK and Australia in May, 2011. For the project he interviewed Martti Ahtissari, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, FW de Klerk, Vaclav Havel, and Pevez Musharraf, among others.

Mr. Till holds a degree in Political Science from Haverford College. His thesis, "Ghosts of Afghanistan: Lessons from the return of the Arab Afghans in the post-Soviet period," won the Herman M. Somers prize for best political science thesis.

His website is: www.brianmichaeltill.com.