11:53 a.m., May 18, 2009----Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will speak on the topic “Fueling the Flames: The Politics of Oil” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, at Mitchell Hall.

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Alterman served as a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs prior to joining the center, which is a Washington, D.C., think-tank.

Alterman also served as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group and is a professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the George Washington University.

Before entering government, he was a scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

From 1993 to 1997, Alterman was an award-winning teacher at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in history. He also worked as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), responsible for foreign policy and defense.

He is on the board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal, is a member of the editorial advisory board of Arab Media and Society, and is a former international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is now a life member.

He is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The talk is sponsored by the University's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, the Graduate Program in Energy and Environmental Policy, the College of Education and Public Policy and the 2009 Global Agenda speaker series.