Barbara Kay Family Fellow, The Washington Institute
Lori Plotkin Boghardt is the Barbara Kay Family Fellow at The Washington Institute, where she specializes in Arab Gulf politics and U.S.-Gulf relations. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. Boghardt worked for more than ten years as a Middle East analyst for the U.S. intelligence community, including at the Central Intelligence Agency and Science Applications International Corporation. Dr. Boghardt holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Oxford, an MPA. from Cornell University, and a BA in politics and Near Eastern studies also from Cornell.