Martin S. Indyk

Vice President and Director

Foreign Policy

Ambassador Martin S. Indyk is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. He was the founding director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. During the Clinton administration Indyk served as assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, special assistant to the president, and senior director for Near East and South Asia in the U.S. National Security Council. Before entering government, he was the founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Ambassador Indyk holds a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (ANU) and is the author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peacemaking Diplomacy in the Middle East, and most recently, Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (with Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Lieberthal).

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