I am a Professor of Government at Austin Community College (ACC). My research interests lie at the intersection of politics, history, economics, psychology, and philosophy. I am a firm believer in a multidisciplinary approach.  Circa 1025 A.D. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) said, "The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."  I believe that to understand the causes of a thing, many approaches are necessary. I have been a teacher since the spring of 1995. I began teaching at the college level in the spring of 2002. There is nothing else that I would rather be doing. I regularly give public lectures and news interviews. Since summer 2006 I have averaged around one public speaking event per month. I am ACC's Middle East Affairs expert and have been doing television interviews since December 2008.  As of late, I have had the honor of doing several live interviews on KVUE (ABC) and Fox 7. I am the founder and president of the Austin School, a student club and lecture series.

Lee Davis is Director for the Qatar Foundation’s MARQ program, where he is responsible for academic evaluation and school review across the district’s pre-university education programs. Prior to joining QF, he was Director of Teaching & Learning at Cambridge Assessment International Education, where he had responsibility for curriculum support, teacher and school leader development, as well as the organization’s school evaluation and school improvement initiatives.  He has extensive experience of school leadership and academic planning, having held school principal and senior leadership positions in schools in the UK, Mozambique, Argentina and Sri Lanka. He holds a BSc from the University of Bath and an MA and MEd from the University of Cambridge.