Thomas Wright is director of the Center of the United States and Europe and foreign policy fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. Wright has a doctorate from Georgetown University and master's degrees from Cambridge and University College Dublin. He has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, and his writing has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Washington Quarterly, Financial Times, The Washington Post, as well as in a number of international media outlets. (Full bio.)
Mekhennet is a correspondent for The Washington Post's national security desk, and she has reported for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and NPR. (Full bio.)