Jasmine El-Gamal is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she focuses primarily on Middle East policy, as well as the role of narratives in the radicalization cycle. She is a former Pentagon official with over 15 years of experience in national security and in cross-cultural communications. El-Gamal served as a Middle East policy advisor under four US secretaries of defense, as well as a special assistant for national-security affairs to three undersecretaries of defense. A first-generation American of Egyptian heritage, El-Gamal has worked throughout her career to incorporate intercultural and interfaith understanding and mutual respect in national-security policy. El-Gamal holds an MS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a BS in Marketing from Clarkson University. She is also a graduate of the New York Film Academy and a co-producer of the 2017 short-documentary film, “Unwelcome,” which was an official selection at over 10 international film festivals. El-Gamal is a co-founder of Only Through US (www.onlythroughus.org), a Washington, DC-based non-profit initiative that seeks to counter fear-based policies in the wake of terror attacks.