Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen is the director of the Israel, The Palestinian Territories, and the Region program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and frequently presents and publishes in a variety of media, policy and academic forums on political, diplomatic and civil society efforts related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Arab-Israeli relations. She has published on Israeli and Palestinian religious peacebuilding efforts and is co-author of a forthcoming USIP/Cornell University press volume examining the diplomatic efforts of successive U.S. administrations toward the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Proficient in Arabic and Hebrew, Kurtzer-Ellenbogen has previously worked with the U.S. Department of State as an Arabic language specialist, and as the program officer for the Kennedy School of Government’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University.