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Brian is an expert on U.S. national security policy in North Africa and the Middle East, and is a sought after speaker on matters pertaining to these areas. Katulis has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, private corporations, and nongovernmental organizations on projects in more than two dozen countries including Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, and Columbia. From 1995 to 1998, he lived and worked in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Egypt for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He received a master's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, and a B.A. in History and Arab and Islamic Studies from Viallanova University. In 1994 and 1995, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan, where he conducted research on the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. Katulis has published articles in several newspapers and journals including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, and Middle East Policy, among other publications. He is co-author of The Prosperity Agenda, a book on U.S. national security published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008. More information on the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council can be found here.