Don Button is the Center Administrator at the Fares Center. His responsibilities include budgeting, conference planning, writing grant proposals, development, and production of the center's publications and communications. Prior to coming to the Fares Center, Don spent over twenty years in the telecommunications industry, where he supervised staff in the strategic development of new customer programs and software. Don also held positions within the financial services industry, as well as serving as creative director for an online greeting card company.

Omar A. Dauhajre is the Program Assistant at the Fares Center, where he works closely with the Director on research projects, event planning, and daily operations. Previously, Omar was a Research Coordinator at the Puerto Rican Center on Population Health and Health Disparities of the JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University. He holds a bachelor of arts in history of the Americas from the University of Puerto Rico and a master of science in mass communications from Florida International University.

Brooke Adams (MALD '10) studies international security and Southwest Asia/Islamic Civilizations at The Fletcher School and is a research assistant at the Fares Center. She spent last year studying Arabic at the American University of Cairo, and prior to that taught English to engineers at a private company in Toulouse, France.

Amelia Cook (MALD '08) is the Editor of Publications for the Fares Center. She works with the Fares Center's staff and research assistants to draft and edit the annual newsletter, occasional papers, and other publications, as well as to maintain website content. Amelia graduated from The Fletcher School in 2008, where she served as a research assistant for the Fares Center. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Resource Economics and Policy as a graduate assistant in the School of Economics at the University of Maine in Orono.

Lauren Dorgan (MALD '11) is a research assistant at the Fares Center. She studies Southwest Asia and Islamic Studies and Security Studies at Fletcher. Prior to coming to Fletcher, Lauren was a political reporter at The Concord Monitor (New Hampshire), covering the presidential primary and a variety of state political issues. Before that, she worked as a desk assistant at the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in History.

Mohammed J. Herzallah (MALD '10) studies international monetary policy and political systems at The Fletcher School and is a research assistant at the Fares Center. Previously, he was a junior research fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. He has published articles in the Daily Star, Ahram Weekly, and Washington Post.

Matteo Tomasini (MALD '10) is a research assistant at the Fares Center and is focusing on conflict resolution and international security studies at The Fletcher School. He most recently served as the Research and Advocacy Fellow at an Iraq-focused NGO in DC where he worked primarily on addressing the displacement crisis. Previously, he conducted research on various Middle East issues at the Burkle Center at UCLA and the Brookings Institution.