Green is the president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, California.
He is concurrently a research professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.Previously, he has served as partner and executive vice president for International Operations at Best Associates in Dallas, Texas.
He also occupied a number of senior management positions at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where he was awarded the RAND Medal for Excellence.
Among these positions, he served as corporate research manager, director of international programs and development, and director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy.
He has also served as a professor of political science at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona.
His work on Middle East policy and politics has appeared in such publications as Comparative Politics, The Harvard Journal of World Affairs, The Huffington Post, the Iranian Journal of International Affairs, Politique Étrangère, the RAND Review, Survival, World Politics, and many others.