About Our Keynote Speaker, David Makovsky
David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Author of numerous Washington Institute publications on issues related to the Middle East peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict, he also co-authored the 2009 Washington Post bestseller Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East with Ambassador Dennis Ross. His 2011 maps on alternative territorial solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were reprinted by The New York Times in the paper’s first interactive treatment of an op-ed.
Makovsky is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. His commentaries on the peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict have been widely published, and he appears frequently in the media to comment on Arab-Israeli affairs. He also has testified before Congressional committees and subcommittees on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs.
Before joining The Washington Institute, Makovsky was an award-winning journalist. He also was Executive Editor of The Jerusalem Post; Diplomatic Correspondent for Haaretz; and Contributing Editor and special Jerusalem correspondent to U.S. News and World Report. He received the National Press Club’s 1994 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for a cover story on PLO finances that he co-wrote.
A native of St. Louis, David Makovsky received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree in Middle East studies from Harvard University.
