Graham E. Fuller
Graham Fuller is currently an independent writer, analyst, lecturer, and consultant on Muslim World affairs and adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He served 20 years as a CIA operations officer, later as vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, with overall responsibility for national level strategic forecasting. Mr. Fuller was later a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation for 12 years. He speaks several Middle Eastern languages. Since 1990 he has been working as an independent analyst on Middle Eastern affairs, particularly on issues of Islam, ethnicity, democracy, and geopolitics. He has written many books and articles relating to the Middle East, global geopolitics, and religion in politics, including a book on the Geopolitics of Islam and the West, several books on Turkey, one on Iran, and a study of the Arab Shia (with Rend Rahim Francke). His most recent book is The Future of Political Islam, Palgrave, 2003.