Robert L. "Bobby" McKenzie, Ph.D., is a domestic and foreign policy analyst, public commentator, and scholar of the Middle East and North Africa. An anthropologist by training, his current work largely focuses on forced migration, displaced persons, refugees, and diaspora-related issues. McKenzie is a director and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a former non-resident senior fellow and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, a former Democratic nominee for Michigan's 11th congressional district, and a former Senior Advisor at the US Department of State. McKenzie is also an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University.