Participant Biographies

Karen Elliott House

Karen Elliott House

Professor, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
Opening Ceremony - Keynote Address, Session 3 - "Reordering the Middle East"

Ms. House is currently teaching a course on Islam and the Middle East at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy in Malibu, CA. She is a retired publisher of the Wall Street Journal and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her coverage of the Middle East. She is author of On Saudi Arabia, Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012). She received a bachelor of journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.