Professional Bio

Leon G. Shahabian is a principal of Global Insights Group LLC, an advisory services firm, and a senior associate of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). A Penn State graduate (BA in international politics/BA in French, 2001), he also holds a certificate in national security and strategy from the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania.  Shahabian is a guest lecturer at the National Intelligence University in Maryland and has testified before the United Nations Security Council in New York. He serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of the Middle East Policy Council and is a life member of the Public Diplomacy Council of America. Fluent in four languages, he received Penn State’s Alumni Achievement Award (2013) and the French and Francophone Studies Department’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2017).