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Martin Sean Indyk, (July 1, 1951 - ) is a British-born diplomat and Middle East expert. He was United States ambassador to Israel in 1995-1997 and 2000-2001.
k was born to a Jewish family in London, England, but grew up in Australia, in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1972 and earned a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977. He became an American citizen in 1993.
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Martin Sean Indyk, (July 1, 1951 - ) is a British-born diplomat and Middle East expert. He was United States ambassador to Israel in 1995-1997 and 2000-2001.
Biography
Indyk was born to a Jewish family in London, England, but grew up in Australia, in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1972 and earned a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977. He became an American citizen in 1993. He was married to Jill Collier Indyk with whom he had two children, Sarah and Jacob.
Academic career
In 1982, Indyk began working as a research director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington.
After that, Indyk served eight years as the founding Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a research institute specializing in Arab-Israel relations and which was founded by AIPAC. He has also been an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies where he taught Israeli politics and foreign policy.
He has taught at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, and the Department of Politics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Indyk has published widely on U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli peace process, on U.S.-Israeli relations, and on the threats of Middle East stability posed by Iraq and Iran.
Diplomatic career
He served as special assistant to U.S. President Bill Clinton and as senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council. While at the NSC, he served as principal adviser to the President and the National Security Advisor on Arab-Israeli issues, Iraq, Iran, and South Asia. He was a senior member of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's Middle East peace team and served as the White House representative on the U.S. Israel Science and Technology Commission.
Indyk managed Middle East policy in the White House and served two stints as United States Ambassador to Israel, from April 1995 to September 1997 and from January 2000 to July 2001. He worked closely with Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak to negotiate peace treaties with the Palestinians and Syria, and during the Clinton administration, helped to formulate the dual containment policy against Iran and Iraq.
In March 2008, The Weekend Australian reported that an Iraqi operative in the Gaza Strip wrote a letter to Baath Party officials in Baghdad in 2001 ordering the assassination of Indyk, a plot which came to nothing.
Today, Indyk is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings Institution.
Published works
- Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East
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- , discussing the US Role in Israel’s 2008-09 Assault on Gaza on Democracy Now, January 8, 2009.
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