Portrait | Graham E. Fuller

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Graham E. Fuller
Graham Fuller is a senior political consultant at RAND Corporation in Washington DC, and a former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA. He served twenty years in the Foreign Service, mostly in the Muslim world, working in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong.In 1982, Mr. Fuller was appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at the CIA. In 1986, he became Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, also at the CIA, with overall responsibility for all national level strategic forecasting. In 1988, he left the government and joined the RAND Corporation where his work has been primarily on the Middle East, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and ethnic problems of the former Soviet Union.His work for RAND includes a 1991 study on the geopolitical implications of the Palestinian intifada; a series of studies on Islamic fundamentalism in Turkey, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Algeria; the survivability of Iraq; the new geopolitics of Central Asia after the fall of the USSR; and problems of democratization and Islam.
Mr. Fuller is author of several articles and books, among which are "The Arab Shi' a: The Forgotten Muslims" (1999; with Rend Francke); "Turkey's Kurdish Question" (1997; with Henry Barkey); and "A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West" (1994; with Ian Lesser). Mr. Fuller is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. He has appeared frequently on CNN and other channels, and comments regularly for BBC radio, Voice of America and other stations. His latest book is "The Future of Political Islam" (2003).Mr. Fuller received his BA and MA in Russian and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.