Program Directors

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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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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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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.