Elan Journo is a fel­low and direc­tor of Pol­i­cy Research at the Ayn Rand Insti­tute. He writes and speaks for ARI. His work has appeared in For­eign Pol­i­cy, Jour­nal of Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Affairs, Mid­dle East Quar­ter­ly, The Clare­mont Review of Books and in pop­u­lar media out­lets, includ­ing The Fed­er­al­ist, Foxnews​.com, Los Ange­les Times, Chica­go Sun-Times, Aus­trali­a’s Her­ald Sun and Canada’s Globe and Mail. He has been inter­viewed on Fox News Chan­nel, PBS, NPR and hun­dreds of radio pro­grams nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly. Mr. Journo has briefed con­gres­sion­al staffers and speaks reg­u­lar­ly at con­fer­ences and uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus­es, includ­ing Stan­ford, Berke­ley, UCLA, New York Uni­ver­si­ty, George Mason Uni­ver­si­ty and the U.S. Naval Acad­e­my. Mr. Journo holds a BA in phi­los­o­phy from King’s Col­lege, Lon­don, and an MA in diplo­ma­cy from SOAS, Uni­ver­si­ty of London.