Michael Singh

Michael Singh is a Managing Director and Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is also a Senate-confirmed member of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace. He was Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the White House from 2007-2008, and a Director on the National Security Council staff from 2005-2007. Earlier, he served as Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Powell and Rice, and at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. Singh co-chaired the Congressionally-appointed Syria Study Group, and served on the Congressional Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States. In addition, he co-chaired Mitt Romney’s State Department transition team in 2012, and served as Middle East advisor to the Romney campaign. Singh has been an Adjunct Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an Economics Instructor at Harvard College. He also serves on the boards of the Vandenberg Coalition, a network of foreign policy practitioners advancing an internationalist U.S. foreign policy, and of Welcome.US, a bipartisan organization dedicated to assisting refugees. He is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard universities, and lives in Virginia.