Diplomat & Middle East Policy Expert; Former Advisor to Four U.S. Presidents; Author of "Doomed to Succeed"
Ambassador Dennis Ross Biography
Dennis Ross is a diplomat and foreign policy expert who has played a significant role in shaping United States engagement in the Middle East across four presidential administrations. Ross has served as an advisor to Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan, providing counsel on U.S. policy and negotiations in the Middle East for more than 30 years. During the Reagan administration, he was 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.
For more than a decade, Ross was a central figure in the Middle East peace process, serving as the U.S. point person on negotiations during the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He contributed to the 1995 Interim Agreement between Israelis and Palestinians, brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and worked to advance discussions between Israel and Syria. Ross collaborated closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. As director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, he was involved in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the Gulf War coalition.
Before returning to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Ross served as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, as well as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He has received the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service and the State Department's highest award. Ross holds honorary doctorates from Brandeis, Amherst, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Syracuse University.
Ross is the author of six books on the peace process, Middle East diplomacy, and international relations, including "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World," "Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny," co-authored with David Makovsky, and "Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama," which received the National Jewish Book Award for history.
Ross serves as Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and teaches at Georgetown University's Center for Jewish Civilization. He regularly contributes analysis on the Israel-Palestine conflict and U.S. foreign policy to major media outlets, including NBC News, MSNBC, Foreign Affairs, TIME, The Atlantic, and NPR's All Things Considered. A graduate of UCLA, Ross wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decisionmaking and served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior, providing an academic foundation for his diplomatic and scholarly work.
Ambassador Dennis Ross Speaking Topics
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Middle East Expert
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