Hagar Hajjar Chemali is a foreign policy analyst, news personality, writer and political satirist. She also consults clients on communications strategy and geopolitical risk.Hagar is the YouTube host and creator of the media brand Oh My World, which explains geopolitics in an educational and entertaining way. She is also the founder of Greenwich Media Strategies, where she advises on communications strategy and geopolitical analysis. Hagar is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. She writes on foreign policy and national security and she and her work have been featured in The Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, and News Nation.Hagar’s professional background and expertise has been shaped by a number of senior public affairs and policy-making positions she held over the course of 12 years in the U.S. Government. Prior to launching her consulting company in 2016, she was Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations under President Obama.Before joining the U.S. Mission, Hagar was Spokesperson for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where she handled all public affairs related to sanctions policy, illicit finance, and enforcement actions.From 2010-2012, Hagar was Director for Syria and Lebanon at the National Security Council at the White House, where she advised on and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy toward Syria and Lebanon. Hagar also worked as a Senior Policy Advisor on Asia and Policy Advisor on the Middle East in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury.Hagar has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where she concentrated in International Security Policy and the Middle East. She is also a graduate of Columbia University’s Barnard College where she majored in Political Science. She speaks English, French, Arabic, and Italian.