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JINSA CEO Dr. Michael Makovsky Briefs National Leaders in Los Angeles on Lessons Learned with Iran and a Way Forward

On October 12, JINSA CEO briefed National Leaders in Los Angeles on on lessons learned with Iran and a way forward. The event was hosted by JINSA National Leaders Ardyth and Sam Freshman.


On October 12, JINSA CEO briefed National Leaders in Los Angeles on on lessons learned with Iran and a way forward. The event was hosted by JINSA National Leaders Ardyth and Sam Freshman.

Dr. Michael Makovsky joined JINSA in 2013 as CEO. A U.S. national security expert, he has worked extensively on Iran’s nuclear program, the Middle East, and the intersection of international energy markets and politics with U.S. national security. Makovsky has been published on national security issues in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, and The New Republic. Dr. Makovsky has a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Harvard University, an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School, and a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago, and is the author of Churchill’s Promised Land, a diplomatic-intellectual history of Winston Churchill’s complex relationship with Zionism.

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