Wilson Center Experts
Michael Adler
Public Policy Scholar
Middle East Program
Contact Information:
T (202) 691-4340
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Expertise:
Middle East and North Africa
; Iran
Affiliation:
Former Correspondent in Vienna for Agence France-Presse News Agency
Wilson Center Project(s):
"The Bazaar Meets the Hammer: Negotiations in the Iranian Nuclear Crisis"
Term:
Dec 31, 2007
Aug 24, 2012
An American who has worked for Agence France-Presse news agency since 1980 with postings in Paris, Bangkok, Kuwait, Sarajevo, Bonn, Berlin and Vienna. He covered the uprising in Burma in 1988, the reconstruction of Kuwait after the first Gulf War, the war in Bosnia, the moving of the German capital from Bonn to Berlin and the fall of Mobutu in Zaire. He is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, writing a book on the diplomacy in the Iranian nuclear crisis. Michael covered this crisis extensively while in Vienna from 2002-2007, where he reported on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has its headquarters in the Austrian capital. He also did reporting in Tehran, Geneva, Brussels, Berlin, New York, Tripoli and other key cities on the Iranian issue. Michael went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and to the University of Paris (Sorbonne).
Expertise
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
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