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Ambassador Dennis Ross

Ambassador Dennis Ross

Author, Counselor & William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute; Former Special Assistant to President Obama

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Ambassador Dennis Ross Biography

Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross has played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.

With more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition.

During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department's highest award.

A 1970 graduate of UCLA, Ambassador Ross received the university’s highest medal and has been named UCLA alumnus of the year. He has also received honorary doctorates from Brandeis, Amherst, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Syracuse University. Ambassador Ross was named a 2016-2017 senior fellow by Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Ambassador Ross has published extensively on the former Soviet Union, arms control, and the greater Middle East, contributing numerous chapters to anthologies. In the 1970s and 1980s, his articles appeared in World Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Orbis, International Security, Survival, and Journal of Strategic Studies. Since leaving government at the end of 2011, he has authored many op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other papers and magazines. He also writes monthly columns for US News and World Report, New York Daily News and the Middle Eastern newspaper Asharq al-awsat.

Ross is the author of several books on the peace process, the Middle East, and international relations. His most recent book, co-written with his Washington Institute colleague David Makovsky, is Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny. The book illustrates “profiles in courage” of four Israeli leaders who faced existential questions about the future of Israel. Previously, Ross authored Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East and The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace. The New York Times praised his 2007 publication, Statecraft, And How to Restore America's Standing in the World as "important and illuminating."

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 01/01/2025.

Ambassador Dennis Ross Speaking Topics

  • Middle East Expert

Ambassador Dennis Ross Videos

  • Dennis Ross: The U.S.-Israel Relationship Under President Donald Trump
    Dennis Ross: "The U.S.-Israel Relationship Under President Donald Trump"
    In the first year of his administration, President Trump has met with key Middle East leaders, imposed additional sanctions on Iranian officials, set...
  • Ambassador Dennis Ross: Prospects for Negotiations in the Middle East
    Ambassador Dennis Ross: Prospects for Negotiations in the Middle East
    The Middle East has been a key focus of American foreign policy for the last three decades, and the events of 2017 ensure it will remain an area of...
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