Daniel Levy (political analyst)

Daniel Levy is an Israeli political scientist, policy advisor and diplomat. He is the current president of the U.S./Middle East Project.From 2012 to 2016, he 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 DC and a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation. Earlier he worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group’s Middle East Program.

Daniel Levy is the son of Michael Levy, a member of the House of Lords.

Levy was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, followed by King's College at the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelors and masters degree with honors from King's College. He was awarded prizes in Social and Political Science. He was the Anti-Racism Officer of Cambridge University Students Union from 1989 to 1990, and between 1991 and 1994, was Chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students.

Daniel Levy did his compulsory army service in the IDF as an NCO in the Liaison Office with the United Nations Forces based in the region and in the office of the Deputy Coordinator of Government Activities in the territories.

Levy was the Director of Policy and International Efforts at Heskem, the Israeli headquarters of the joint non-governmental Israeli-Palestinian Geneva Initiative. Levy led the working-level Israeli negotiating team for over two years, and was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Accord.

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