From: http://www.benadorassociates.com
Benador Associates, founded by Eleana Benador, is located in New York City as well as in Paris and London. However, the activities of the firm are expanding throughout the American continent, as well as in Europe and the Middle East.
Each of our experts is nationally and internationally recognized on issues of the Middle East and national security, among others. We are confident each of them makes your event, radio or television show a unique one.
We invite you to read the biographies of the listed experts to find a good match for your audience or event. Some experts are booked further in advance than others [Ed.Comm.: especially those from US-Government...?], so please do let us know the details as soon as you can.
Among the experts are James Woolsey, A.M. Rosenthal, Richard Perle, Amir Taheri, Kanan Makiya and Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
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Eleana Benador, founder and CEO of Benador Associates, Inc.:
Eleana Benador, who is Swiss-American, was born in Lima, Peru. After living most of her life in Europe, Paris, Vienna and Geneva, she moved to the United States. A linguist by nature, Ms Benador studied interpreting and translating at the Sorbonne and the Universite Catholique de Lille. She also studied psychology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, as well as political science in Vienna, Austria, and in Geneva, Switzerland. She is fluent in French, English, German and Spanish, understands and speaks Portuguese, Italian and Dutch, and reads Hebrew and some Russian.
Ms Benador has also participated in various capacities in some international organizations. She has also worked as an advisor to the Minister of Industry and Tourism of Peru, as an editor of the Peruvian Times, a consultant to Swiss-German Television, and as an advisor to a former mayor of Geneva and to a former Peruvian ambassador to Austria. She provided for a former Peruvian President the first translation into Spanish of a book by former President of France, M. Valery Giscard d'Estaing, "La democratie Francaise." More recently, she has been a consultant to Professor Bezalel Narkiss, and associate director and director in New York City of a Philadelphia think tank. [Ed.Comm.: wondering WHAT'S this 'Think-Tank' called...?]
Eleana Benador's own background represents a convergence of cultures, nationalities and interests. Her commitment to excellence is undeterred, and she has rallied an initial roster of experts, academics, former high-ranking government officials, scholars and renowned journalists, as well as philantrophists, whose fame is supported by the critical contributions each of them has made in his or her field.
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...yes I forgot...AND...I proudly present among her 'experts' is... Oleg Gordievsky as presented on:
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/7164
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