Hagar Hajjar
Chemali
Hagar Chemali is a senior nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center and is CEO of Greenwich Media Strategies, which provides communications consulting in national security, counter-illicit finance, and business. Hagar hosts a weekly world news show on YouTube called Oh My World, and is featured regularly as a foreign policy expert on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.
Hagar’s professional background and expertise has been shaped by her experiences in the U.S. Government, including as Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the UN, Spokesperson for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Director for Syria and Lebanon at the National Security Council, Senior Policy Advisor on Asia and Middle East Policy Advisor in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. Hagar is a graduate of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia University’s Barnard College.