Ethan Chorin

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Ethan Chorin
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Born
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
Education U.C. Berkeley
Stanford University
Yale University
Occupation(s)CEO-Perim Associates, LLC
Editor-Africa Review 3 Magazine
Known forAuthor and Political Analyst
Notable workTranslating Libya
(2008, Saqi Books-SOAS)
Exit The Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
(PublicAffairs, 2012)
Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink
(Hachette, 2022)
Website ethanchorinauthor.com

Ethan Chorin is a Middle East and Africa-focused scholar and entrepreneur. He is known as a leading analyst of Libyan affairs, and for his applied development work in the Middle East and Africa, in the area of environmental science and healthcare.

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Career

Chorin began his career as a business developer with Shell Oil. [1] [2] In 2004 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, and was one of a small number of U.S. diplomats posted to Libya (2004-2006) immediately following the U.S. rapprochement with Gaddafi c. 2004. [3] He served in Libya as the Economic and Commercial attaché from 2004-2006, and was subsequently posted to Washington, D.C. and the United Arab Emirates. From 2008-2011 he was Senior Manager for Communications, and then Government Relations, at Dubai Ports World (DP World), [4] and was head of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program from 2009-2011. [5]

Chorin returned to Libya in July, 2011 as co-founder of the 501c(3) non-profit Avicenna Group, to assist with post-revolutionary medical capacity-building. [6] As part of this effort, he recruited Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to work with Benghazi Medical Center (BMC, on a program to build trauma capacity in Benghazi. [7] The MOU for this project was signed a day before the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was to visit BMC to express support for the project the following day. [8] Chorin has written several pieces on the impact of that attack on U.S. foreign policy in the region. [9] [10]

Chorin was a Director at Berkeley Research Group (BRG) from 2012-2013, before founding Perim Associates, which advises international law firms and governments. As CEO of Perim Associates, Chorin created the 2015 ministerial East Africa Environmental Risk & Opportunity “ERO” Summit, held in Djibouti, and hosted by the President of the Republic of Djibouti. [11] [12] Yale University Climate and Energy Center played a prominent role in the conference, [13] which was highlighted by Secretary of State John Kerry in a Djibouti press conference. [14] He served as Sr. Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, 2020-2021. [15]

Chorin has spoken and testified on Libya before bodies such as the NATO Parliamentary Assembly [16] and the U.S. Congress. He has been a frequent commentator on Libya for the BBC. [17]

Books

Chorin has written three books. Translating Libya (2008, Saqi Books-SOAS) [18] is known as one of the most significant English language sources on Libyan short fiction. [18] [19] [20] [21] It is a collection of translations of 16 short stories set in various locations in Libya, interspersed with Chorin’s travelogue and social commentary. Darf Publishers published an expanded edition in 2015 with a foreword by Libyan novelist Ahmed Ibrahim Fagih. [22] ”

Chorin’s second book, Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution, traces the origins of the 2011 Libyan Revolution. [23] [24] [25] Libya historian Dirk Vandewalle called Exit The Colonel “undoubtedly...the best analytical work on Libya and its revolution for a very long time. [26] "Middle East constitutional lawyer and ex-Lebanese Presidential candidate Chibli Mallat [27] noted that Chorin had “reconstructed the murky events (of the first few days of the Revolution) in remarkable detail. [28] ”

His most recent book is Benghazi! A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and Its World to the Brink (Hachette, 2022), [29] which provides the broader context, and details the larger causes and long-term consequences of the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. [30]

Education and awards

Chorin holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Agricultural and Resource Economics (2000). [31] Chorin received a master's degree from Stanford University in International Policy Studies (1993) [32] and a bachelor's degree from Yale University in Near Eastern Literature and Civilizations (1991), cum laude, with Distinction in the major [33]

Chorin was a Fulbright Fellow in Amman, Jordan (1994-1995), [34] an IIE Fulbright Hays Doctoral Research Fellow in Aden, Yemen (1998-1999), [35] and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Ecole polytechnique, France (1993-1994) [32]

Chorin has been a Social Enterprise Fellow at the Yale School of Management (SOM) (2012), [5] a Non-Resident Fellow at the Dubai School of Government (2009-2011), [36] He was a member of the 2008 Obama Campaign’s Foreign Policy Advisory Group. [37] He was recipient of a U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award for his work in Libya, and a Sinclaire Award for language achievement in Persian [38]

Chorin was born New York City, and grew up in Berkeley, California. He is the son of mathematician Alexander Joel Chorin and Alice Jones Chorin.

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