- L. Paul Bremer
Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30 1941), known as Paul Bremer and also nicknamed Jerry Bremer, was named Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for post-war Iraq following the Iraq War of 2003, replacing Jay Garner on May 6 2003. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of Defense and exercised authority over Iraq's civil administration.
- Muqtada Al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also the son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir As-Sadr. While he does not hold any official title in the Iraqi government, he is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country.
- Mark Kimmitt
Mark T. Kimmitt (born 21 June 1954), formerly a Brigadier General in the US Army, is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East. Previously, Kimmitt served as Deputy Director for Strategy and Plans for the United States Central Command, and Deputy Director for Operations/Chief Military Spokesman for Coalition Forces in Iraq, and served at NATO's SHAPE headquarters in Belgium.
- Erik Prince
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, …
- Larry Diamond
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University and the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy . He is also codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy [1] and is a member of the Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid .
- Stuart Bowen
Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., is an American lawyer who currently serves as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), a position he has held since October 2004. He previously served as the Inspector General for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA-IG), a position to which he was appointed in January 2004. Bowen's mission includes ensuring effective oversight of the $22 billion that comprise the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.
- Carl A. Strock
Lieutenant General Carl A. Strock is a U.S. Army officer, and is currently Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He was born in Georgia and grew up in an Army family. He enlisted in the Army and received his commission as an infantry second lieutenant following graduation from Officer Candidate School in 1972.
- Jeremy Greenstock
Sir Jeremy Greenstock (born 1944), educated at Harrow and Worcester College, Oxford, was a British diplomat from 1969-2004, serving in Washington DC, Paris, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. He is the former British Ambassador to the United Nations in New York and Her Majesty's former Special Representative in Iraq, where he worked alongside Paul Bremer within the Coalition Provisional Authority. Greenstock left his position as deputy to Bremer in late March 2004, …
- Philip Bloom
Philip Bloom is an American businessman who pled guilty on April 18 2006 to conspiracy, bribery and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud the Coalition Provisional Authority - South Central Region (CPA-SC) during the occupation of Iraq. Bloom was accused of bribing Lieutenant Colonel Bruce D. Hopfengardner, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Wheeler, Lieutenant Colonel Debra Harrison and a CPA Comptroller and convicted felon named Robert Stein Jr..
- Mowaffak Al-Rubaie
Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie is an Iraqi politician, and the current Iraqi National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance. A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai'i was born in Kadhimiya and left Iraq in the early 1980s to study in Britain.
- John Agresto
John Agresto is a U.S. educational administrator in private and public service. After serving as a deputy head of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the 1980s, he became president of St. John's College in Santa Fe. At the NEH, he worked with William Bennett and Lynne Cheney. After his retirement from St. John's and the 2003 Iraq invasion, Agresto worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority to revive the Iraqi higher education system.
- Simone Ledeen
Simone Ledeen is the daughter of political pundit Michael Ledeen. Ledeen was noted for her service in 2003 with the Coalition Provisional Authority during the Reconstruction of Iraq. Her appointment to the CPA ultimately came into question because she was entrusted with a $13 billion budget despite having no experience managing the finances of a large organization.
- Fern Holland
Fern Holland was an American lawyer who was killed in the Iraq conflict that began in 2003. Holland died on March 9, 2004 while working for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq. According to reports, she was the first U.S. civilian working for the U.S. occupation authority to be killed in Iraq,, along with Robert J. Zangas, another U.S. aid worker, and Salwa Oumashi.
- Ghazi Mashal Ajil Al-Yawer
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a member of the Shammar tribe (born March 11 1958 in Mosul, Iraq) was a Vice President of Iraq under the Iraqi Transitional Government of 2005-2006, and was President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He was originally a member of the Iraqi Governing Council created following the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Debra Harrison
United States Army Reserve Lt. Col. Debra Harrison (b. 1958) who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority from 2003 to 2004, was arrested on December 15, 2005 on charges involving bribery, money laundering and fraud. Ms. Harrison allegedly stole between $80,000 and $100,000 in funds from the U.S. governing administration in Iraq, using the money to install a deck and hot tub in her New Jersey home.
- Ezzedine Salim
Ezzedine Salim,, also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed, was an Iraqi politician. Born in the city of Basra, he began studying religion and politics at a young age. At the age of 19 he joined the Shiite group Hizb al dawa, whose members were quickly noticed by the Baath Party as a threat to their power. He left Iraq in his early twenties to go and live in Kuwait, where he became a teacher.
- Michael Fleischer
Michael Fleischer is a United States businessman from the state of New Jersey and on March 13 2004 was appointed to the post of Director of Private Sector Development for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He had been a deputy in the Office of Private Sector Development since November 2003. He took leave from Bogen Communications International, Inc., where he was president and a member of the Board of Directors, in order to serve in Iraq.
- Hajim Al-Hassani
Hajim al-Hassani (born 1954, Kirkuk) is an Iraqi politician and was the speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly under the Iraqi Transitional Government. A moderate Sunni Arab and relative outsider, having spent much of his life in the United States, al-Hassani was tapped as a compromise candidate for the speaker's post after weeks of deadlock between Iraqi political parties.
- Walt Slocombe
Walt Slocombe was the Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Affairs for L. Paul Bremer during the lifetime of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Slocombe attended Princeton University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He later took a law degree at Harvard University.
- Thomas C. Foley
Thomas C. Foley has been the United States Ambassador to Ireland since October, 2006. He is President Bush’s third U.S. Ambassador to Ireland since 2001. He was nominated for the position in June, 2006. He went to Phillips Andover Academy and Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics. He also earned a master's degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Foley was formerly president of the NTC Group and chairman of TB Wood’s Corporation and Stevens Aviation, Inc.
- Robert Stein Jr.
Robert Stein Jr. was employed as a controller for the Coalition Provisional Authority in South Central Iraq despite being a convicted felon. Stein of Fayetteville, N.C was subsequently charged with fraud and accepting kickbacks on November 15 2005, and pled guilty to the charges. He was sentenced on January 29 2007, to 9 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in the bribery and fraud scheme.
- George Wolfe
George Wolfe, an employee of the United States government, worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 and 2004. Wolfe sat on the CPA's Program Review Board, the committee that made the final recommendation to CPA Administrator Paul Bremer over the $20 billion of contracts the CPA awarded. For its final three months Wolfe served as the Board's chairman. As chair of the Board he was also the Senior advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
- Michael Brian Wheeler
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Brian Wheeler is a United States Army Reserve officer, who served in Iraq during the Coalition Provisional Authority occupation, who was subsequently charged with fraud and accepting bribes. Wheeler, another officer, Lieutenant Colonel Debra Harrison and a CPA Comptroller named Robert Stein Jr. are accused of accepting bribes of $200,000 per month from Philip Bloom in return for awarding construction contracts.
- Hazim Al-Shaalan
Hazim al-Shaalan al-Khuzaei was Iraq's Defence Minister from June 2004 until May 2005 under the Iraqi Interim Government of Ayad Allawi. al-Shaalan is a Sunni Arab. Prior to his return to Iraq, following the fall of Saddam Hussein, he was a small businessman in London. An Iranian news agency reported documents showing that al-Shaalan had been a member of Saddam Hussein's secret police, the Mokhaberat. A member of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, …
- Abdul Rahman Mustafa
Abdul Rahman Mustafa, The Kurdish mayor-governor of Kirkuk, was elected in 2003 by multiethnic Kirkuk City Council under supervision of Coalition Provisional Authority in Post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Has a law degree from Baghdad University. Visited Dallas, Texas as part of partners for peace, an International Goodwill agreement with Dallas.
- Patrick F. Kennedy
Patrick F. Kennedy was the former Deputy Director for Management of the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He returned to the United States Department of State on May 7, 2007. He is currently rumored to be the next Under Secretary for Management at the Department of State. The previous Under Secretary for Management, Henrietta H. Fore has been nominated by the President to serve as Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator.
- Seth Jones
Seth Jones (born October 1972) is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. He was also a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
- Jeffrey D. Feltman
Jeffrey Feltman is the United States Ambassador to Lebanon (as of February 23 2007). He was sworn into the office on July 22 2004, and took up his duties there on August 20 2004. Before becoming Ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman volunteered to serve at the Coalition Provisional Authority office in Irbil, Iraq, from January to April 2004. Prior to his work in Iraq, his most recent assignment was at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, …
- Tom C. Korologos
Ambassador Korologos has had a wide and varied Washington experience. He has served as a senior staff member in the U.S. Congress, as an assistant to two Presidents in the White House, was a prominent businessman, and most recently was a senior counselor with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad.
- Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Joe Gattuso
- A. Heather Coyne
A. Heather Coyne "was recently the chief of party for USIP 's activities in Iraq. She previously served fifteen months in Iraq as a U.S. Army Reserve Civil Affairs Officer, assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority as the civil society officer for the Baghdad Region. Her role was to promote the establishment and growth of indigenous Iraqi nongovernmental organizations, professional societies, and local citizens’ committees to support the reestablishment of civil society.
- Carl A. Strock
Lieutenant General Carl A. Strock, was born in Georgia and grew up in an Army Family. He enlisted in the Army and received his commission as an infantry second lieutenant following gradu ation from Officer Candidate School in 1972. After completing Ranger and Special Forces training, he served primarily with infantry units before transferring to the Engineer Branch in 1983.
- Al Runnels
Mr. Runnels performed duties in staff finance and comptroller positions including Disbursing Officer, 1st Infantry Division; Deputy Finance Officer, 25th Infantry Division; Comptroller, 2d Armored Division; and as the Program and Budget Officer, at HQ USAREUR and 7th Army. He served on the Joint Staff as Chief of the Operations Branch within the Directorate for Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment (J-8).
- Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin - Editor, Middle East Quarterly Michael Rubin is a Resident Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches domestic politics in Iran and Iraq, Kurdish society, and Arab democracy. He was formerly a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Dr. Rubin earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
- Mark Thomas Maybury
Dr. Mark Maybury is Executive Director of MITRE's Information Technology Division. He is responsible for the direction of advanced research and development for intelligence and defense systems supporting a broad range of sponsors including the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, OSD, DISA, ARDA, DARPA, NSF, and national intelligence agencies. In addition, his division provides research and modernization to the IRS and FAA.
- Amy K. Burns
Amy K. Burns Amy K. Burns ’92 Political science graduate Amy Burns joined the Coalition Provisional Authority in Washington, D.C., to help rebuild Iraq. In April, she went to Baghdad as deputy director of communications for the Program Management Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Burns is pictured here with Rear Adm. David Nash, veteran of the Navy and of the construction industry, who is leading the office.
- Radm W. Craig Vanderwagen
RADM Vanderwagen has significant public-health-emergency and disaster-response experience. During his tenure at HHS, he has led the teams to implement at HHS changes recommended in the White House Report Katrina Lessons Learned , and was the senior Federal health official in the response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Louisiana.
- Edward G. Usher III
Edward G. Usher III Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics Major General Usher is presently serving as the Deputy Commandant, Installations and Logistics, Washington, D.C. He is a 1974 graduate of San Diego State University. A third generation Marine, he entered the Marine Corps through the Platoon Leaders Class program.
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assisting managing editor of The Washington Post , where he has worked since 1994. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins school for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.