About our speaker
Dennis Ross
Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Former Special Middle East Coordinator
For more than 12 years, Ambassador Dennis B. Ross played the leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the negotiations. Ross was instrumental in assisting the Israelis and Palestinians in reaching the 1995 Interim Agreement and he successfully brokered the Hebron Accord in 1997. He facilitated the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. It was during this time that Ross’ position as Special Middle East Coordinator earned him the title of Ambassador.
In addition to his position as Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Ross is a Foreign Affairs Analyst for the Fox News Channel and a frequent commentator in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He is also the first chairman of a new Jerusalem-based think tank, The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, funded and founded by the Jewish Agency.