Dalia Dassa Kaye

Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and was a 2023-24 Fulbright Schuman scholar based at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden. Dalia joined the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California in 2005, where she was a senior political scientist and Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy from 2012 to 2020. She has held positions as a Wilson Center scholar, a CFR International Affairs Fellow at the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University, a Brookings Research Fellow, and as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill.

A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dalia is an internationally recognized expert on global security and Middle East policy, with over twenty-five years of professional experience in research, policy analysis, and public policy leadership. She has received numerous research awards and is a frequent public speaker and contributor to leading media outlets. She is the author of two books, Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia and Beyond the Handshake: Multilateral Cooperation in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, as well as dozens of journal articles, op-eds, policy papers, and RAND studies. Her most recent articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, World Politics Review, Survival, and The Washington Quarterly.

Dalia holds her BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.