Emanuele Ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi, a political scientist, is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC. Previously, he ran the Brussels-based AJC Transatlantic Institute. He has taught at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, as well as the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He earned a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna.
Ottolenghi has written about Middle East issues for "Commentary", "The Daily Mirror", "The Guardian", "National Review" Online, "Newsday", the "Jewish Chronicle", and the "Middle East Quarterly", as well as European publications: "Corriere del Ticino", "il Foglio", "Libero", "Il Riformista", "Liberal", "Standpoint", "L'Unità", and "Die Welt".
He has expertise on antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Italy, and terrorism. He is the author of five books: