Mallory Factor is the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel and is a FoxNews Contributor. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he attended Columbia University’s Law and Business schools. Mallory is the co-founder of The New York Meeting, a nationally-recognized gathering of elected officials, journalists, business leaders and conservative authors in New York City. He hosts a similar meeting, The Charleston Meeting, in Charleston, South Carolina. Mallory is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as Vice-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Terrorism Financing. Mallory is senior fellow at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was previously senior fellow to the House Republican Study Committee from 2007 to 2011.