
Robert L. McKenzie
Visiting Fellow, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Brookings Institution
Robert L. McKenzie is a visiting fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. McKenzie is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with 15 years of applied research and work experience for the U.S. government, private sector, and academia. He has extensive experience working on issues related to forced migration, displaced persons, and refugee resettlement, as well as Muslim and Arab diaspora. McKenzie's latest book project, expected in May 2017, explores humanitarian assistance to protracted refugee situations in the MENA region.
Europe is facing its biggest refugee crisis since the second world war, with a large number of refugees coming from the Middle East, particularly Syria and Afghanistan. In September, the Cipher Brief [...] More