Hagar Hajjar Chemali is a foreign policy and communications advisor, news commentator, and political satirist with 12 years of senior-level U.S. government experience. She served as spokesperson and communications director for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, director for Syria and Lebanon at the National Security Council, spokesperson for terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and senior policy advisor for the Middle East and Asia in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. Currently, Hagar is the founder and CEO of strategic communications and foreign policy consultancy firm Greenwich Media Strategies, and host and creator of “Oh My World,” an award-winning YouTube show explaining geopolitics. She is also the co-founder of the Lebanon-Israel Peace Alliance. Hagar is featured regularly on CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, where she analyzes and explains foreign policy and national security. She is also an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. Hagar holds a master of international affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and a BA in political science from Barnard College.