Israel\Hamas Negotiations: Are They Going Anywhere? | EYES ON | Ep. 22
The Team House
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Alex Plitsas is a nonresident senior fellow with the Middle East Programs’ N7 Initiative, a partnership between the Atlantic Council and Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation working to strengthen and deepen Arab-Israeli normalization. Additionally, he is currently a principal and industry director for aerospace and defense and high-tech electronics at Providence Consulting Group where he oversees and leads industry-focused teams who conduct business and digital-transformation projects for enterprise resource-planning software systems. Previously, Plitsas served as the director for strategic operations for a high-tech electronics company servicing the aerospace and defense industry and as a chief of staff at the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. He completed his federal service as the chief of sensitive activities for special operations and combating terrorism in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he oversaw policy and operations for compartmented plans and programs. He was also detailed from the Pentagon to the Intelligence Community, representing the secretary of defense as a senior member of the White House Hostage Policy Review Team. Plitsas also worked as a strategic planner for the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, where he was deployed to Afghanistan. He also deployed twice to Iraq, once in uniform leading a psychological operations team during “the surge” and fighting in the Battle of Sadr City, and a second time as a civilian working in the Special Programs Office at United State Forces–Iraq Headquarters. Plitsas has also worked as a program manager and contractor for several tier-1 aerospace and defense companies, such as Northrop Grumman, in between stints in the federal government and military service.
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| 0:54.8 | Hello everyone welcome to another episode of Ison. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm going to announce my introduction and the host |
| 1:00.8 | introduction first because we never rehearse this. and then we'll get around to the guest. I'm Andy Morbon. I'm Jason Lyons. I'm Demetia Contagos. And today as a guest we have Alex Pleitzus. He's a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. |
| 1:17.0 | Very interestingly, I think, I mean his whole resume is interesting, but of particular interest especially to our |
| 1:22.8 | listeners he's just taken over the terrorism studies group is that right Alex |
| 1:28.1 | at the Atlantic Council you know he's a, and perhaps unlike some of the think tank crowd, Alex has plenty of practical experience. |
| 1:42.0 | He was chief of practical experience. |
| 1:42.9 | He was chief of special programs |
| 1:46.0 | in the, under the Assistant Secretary of Defense |
| 1:49.4 | for Special Operations and low intensity conflict. |
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