Understanding The Middle East Conflicts from a Diplomat’s View Featuring Ambassador Dennis Ross - September 17, 2024 at 4:00 PM

Ambassador Dennis Ross is the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He also teaches at Georgetown University’s Center
for Jewish Civilization. For more than twelve years, Amb. Ross played a leading role in shaping
U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process, dealing directly with the parties as the U.S.
point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.
He served two and half years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security
Council senior director for the Central Region, spending the first 6 months of the Administration
as the special advisor on Iran to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Amb. Ross
served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush
administration. He played a prominent role in U.S. policy towards 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.

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