Theodore Feifer

Theodore Feifer is the deputy director of the Institute’s Education and Training Center/International. He joined USIP in 2000 following 26 years in the Foreign Service. He specialized in the Arab-Israeli peace process, serving two assignments at the U. S. embassy in Tel Aviv and as an adviser to the special Middle East coordinator.

He participated in the Egypt-Israel peace treaty and autonomy negotiations, Israeli-Palestinian bilateral talks and the Middle East multilateral working groups. Feifer helped establish the Israel-Lebanon monitoring group and served as deputy head of the U.S. delegation in 1996-1997. As officer in charge of Cyprus in the U.S. Department of State from 1985 to 1987, Feifer was involved in the search for a Cyprus peace settlement. He also taught at the Armed Forces Staff College, where he lectured on the interagency process and the role of the military in peace operations.

He holds a Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the National War College.