Natan Sachs

Natan Sachs is a senior fellow (starting September 2025) at the Middle East Institute. From 2012 to 2025, he served as a fellow, senior fellow, and for eight years, director of the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy.

His research and commentary on US foreign policy, Israeli foreign policy and domestic politics, and Middle East affairs have been widely published and frequently quoted in outlets such as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, Yediot Aharonot, and Haaretz.

Dr. Sachs has testified before committees of the US Congress and other parliaments. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and held fellowships at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute, Tel Aviv University's Dayan Center, and as a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia.

He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.