Dr. Ethan Chorin Chairman & CEO, Red Sea Futures Ethan Chorin is a Middle East analyst, former diplomat and author, with 30 years working on Middle East and Red Sea politics and economy. Chorin proposed and implemented the Red Sea's first multi-state ministerial climate summit in 2015 and managed content for Dubai's first Counter-Piracy Conference in 2011. Chorin has taught at Yale University and UC Berkeley, and held senior fellow and researcher positions at SOAS, CSIS, the Dubai School of Government, Yale School of Management, and École Polytechnique. A two-time Fulbright Fellow, he is the author of four books on the region, including Benghazi: A New History (Hachette), Exit the Colonel (Public Affairs, 2012), and a forthcoming modern history of the Red Sea (Harvard University Pr...