Dr. Paul
Sullivan
Dr.
Paul Sullivan has
been a full professor at the National Defense University (NDU) since July 1999.
At NDU he has taught economics, industry analytics, about the energy industry,
and electives on economic warfare, Iran, Iraq, the Islamic world, and natural
resources and international security. He has run crisis, national security and
national mobilization exercises. He ran the Middle East, and the North Africa
and Levant Regional Security Studies.
Professor Sullivan has been a primary faculty adviser at NDU to
flag officers from the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia,
Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Europe, South Asia, Argentina and Northeast
Asia while at NDU. Dr. Sullivan has been part of the leadership and faculty of
the award-winning NDU Energy Industry Study for 15 years.
He has run field studies
related to the energy, environment and agribusiness industries in Tanzania,
Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France,
Greece, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar, Australia, Japan, Mongolia, China, Chile, and
throughout the United States as part of his duties at NDU. He was an Adjunct
Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, where he taught classes
on global energy and international security (which include analyses of energy
and security issues for the EU, Russia, the Middle East and North
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia,
the United States, Chile, Venezuela, Canada, and the Arctic.) for over 14
years. He taught a course on natural resources and international security for
Georgetown’s STIA department for many years.
He is a Distinguished
International Fellow at the National Council of U.S. Arab Relations and an
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Future Global Resource Threats at the Federation of
American Scientists. Dr. Sullivan has been involved in the energy work at the
UNCTAD with a focus on Africa. He also has been part of very exclusive energy
meetings at Windsor Castle in the UK over the past three years. He was a senior
fellow at the EastWest Institute, and a VP at the UN Association of the National
Capitol Area. He was on high-level working groups on Iraq, Iran, Libya and the
Marshall Plan for the Middle East for the Atlantic Council. He was on
high-level working groups on Iraq, the Tigris and Euphrates, and Syria for
PILPG. Dr. Sullivan was a quiet part of the debate on the Iraq war from 2002
onward. He was an SME for high-level working groups at CNA related to water and
energy. He has been on speaking panels, working groups, issues projects and
games in many of the top think tanks and for very high-level government
meetings for many years. He spoke on nuclear non-proliferation at the UN for
the EastWest Institute.
He is an internationally
recognized expert on the political economy and economic development of the Middle
East and North Africa, Northeast Asia, South Asia and parts of The Americas.
Professor Sullivan taught classes on the economics of Egypt, the economic
development of the Middle East and the economic history of the Middle East at
the American University in Cairo for six years. He was part of the initial
point team from NDU to help establish a National Defense College in the
UAE.
Dr. Sullivan has been
advising senior leadership in government and the military on economic, energy, water,
extremism, US-Islamic, US-Arab and US-Iran relations, the Middle East and North
Africa, East Asia, South Asia and other economic and security issues for
decades. He has been interviewed 1000s of times by the media on five continents
on multiple issue. He is extensively published (over 300 articles) on a wide
variety of issues. He has given hundreds of public, academic and policy talks
throughout the world over his nearly four decade career.
Dr. Sullivan obtained his
Ph.D. from Yale University with highest
honors and graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis
University. Dr. Sullivan is a graduate of the prestigious Seminar XXI Program
at MIT. He has a certificate of completion from the graduate-level Ethnoarchaeology
Field Study run by Flinders University in Barunga, Australia.
He takes a practical view on issues and can explain possible solutions, as well as develop the right questions, in everyday language. He is known for his discretion. A selected list of his publications and other activities can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsullivenergy.
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