Daniel Levy is an English-Israeli political scientist, policy advisor and diplomat. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and co-directs the Middle East Taskforce.[1] He is also a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation where he directs the Prospects for Peace Initiative.
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Levy was the Director of Policy and International Efforts at Heskem, the Israeli headquarters of the joint non-governmental Israeli-Palestinian Geneva Initiative. Levy led the working-level Israeli negotiating team for over two years, and was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Accord.
Levy previously served as senior policy adviser to former Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin, from March 2000 to March 2001. In this capacity, he was responsible for coordinating policy on various aspects of the ministerial portfolio, including issues related to peace negotiations, the Palestinian minority in Israel, civil and human rights, representing the minister on governmental committees.
During the Ehud Barak government, he worked in the Prime Minister's Office as special adviser and head of the Jerusalem Affairs unit under Minister Haim Ramon.
Levy was a member of the Israeli delegation to the Taba Summit with the Palestinians in January 2001, and of the negotiating team for the "Oslo 2" Agreement from May to September 1995, under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In 2003 Levy worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group Middle East Program, during which time he authored reports, including "A Time To Lead – the International Community and the Middle East", "Middle East Endgame – How a Comprehensive Peace Settlement Would Look", "A Middle East Roadmap to Where?", and "Identity Crisis: Israel and its Arab Citizens" He also worked for three years as projects director for the Economic Cooperation Foundation, a Tel Aviv based policy ‘think-tank and do-tank’ whose mission is to promote regional peace and stability in the Middle East.
He served his compulsory army service as an NCO in the Liaison Office with the United Nations Forces based in the region and in the office of the Deputy Coordinator of Government Activities in the territories.
A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, Levy was the Anti-Racism Officer of Cambridge University Students Union from 1989 to 1990. Between 1991 and 1994, Daniel Levy was Chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students.
He occasionally writes opinion pieces for Ha’aretz.
As of April 2008, Levy is a member of J Street's Advisory Council.
Daniel Levy is the son of Michael Levy, a former record producer, who is a member of the House of Lords, a Jewish community leader, and an important fundraiser for Tony Blair.