Lecture
Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
- Daniel Levy (President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP))
- Date
- Thursday 23 May 2024
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.01
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About the speaker
Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), which emphasizes the Palestine-Israel issue alongside regional conflicts, trends and geopolitics.
From 2012 to 2016, Levy was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he was a senior Fellow and Director of the New America Foundation’s Middle East Taskforce in Washington D.C. Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95).
Levy was born and educated in the UK where he has returned to residing and where he graduated with an MA and BA from King's College, Cambridge with awards.
He appears, writes and is quoted frequently in mainstream media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera etc. His most recent testimony to the UN Security Council can be viewed here.