Dalia Dassa Kaye

Dalia Dassa Kaye is a globally recognized expert on international relations and Middle East policy. A 2023-2024 Fulbright Schuman scholar based at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University and the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Dalia is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. For nearly a decade she directed the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation, where she was also a senior political scientist. Before joining RAND, she was an advisor at the Dutch Foreign Ministry and a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dalia is a frequent public speaker and contributor to leading media outlets. She is the author of two books, Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, as well as dozens of journal articles, op-eds, and RAND studies. Dalia holds her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.