Senior Staff

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Leila Hilal is co-director of the New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, which covers in-depth analysis and commentary on the Middle East and North Africa.

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Kavita Patel directed the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation for most of 2010. Dr. Patel is a board-certified internal medicine physician dedicated to bringing stories and lessons learned from the clinical world to the heart of U.S. health care policymaking.

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Shannon Brownlee, MS, is acting director of the New America Health Policy Program. A nationally known writer and essayist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Slate, Time, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the British medical journal BMJ among many other publications, she is best known for her groundbreaking work on avoidable health care, the patchy quality of medical evidence, and the implications for health care policy.

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Barry Lynn is director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005). Lynn’s groundbreaking writings on industrial interdependence among nations and the growing fragility of complex industrial systems have attracted wide attention, and he has been invited to present his work to high officials in Japan, Germany, Britain

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Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, and the author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden ( 2001), which has been translated into 18 languages and The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader (2006). Both books were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post, and documentaries based on the books were nominated for Emmys in 2002 and 2007. His most recent book is The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (2011).

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Sherle Schwenninger directs the New America Foundation's Economic Growth and American Strategy Programs. One of the founders of New America, he is also the former director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program.

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Rachel White serves as executive vice president and director of external relations for the New America Foundation. She is responsible for leading and implementing strategic and tactical organizational and fundraising objectives, leads and directs all external relations strategies including public events and media partnerships, and serves as a bridge between the president's office and the rest of the organization. Ms.