Hady Amr joined the State Department in 2013 and serves as U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations for Economics and Gaza. From 2010 until joining the State Department, he was USAID’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East, deputy head of a 600 person bureau that managed $1.6 billion in United States foreign assistance to the Middle East including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Yemen. At the onset of the Arab Spring, in addition to being responsible for strategic dimensions of U.S. foreign assistance to these countries, he took on a leadership role in crafting the U.S. assistance response to Libya, Syria and Tunisia.
From 2006-2010, he served as the Founding Director of the Brookings Doha Center, where in partnership with Qatari hosts and Brookings leadership he built and managed the multi-million dollar Center from the ground up, including all legal, governance, staffing and financial dimensions as well as setting the research and communications agenda for the Center. He also built an advisory council for the Center that included current and former national security advisors and ministers. At Brookings he also served as a Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and a convener of the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum, a global event that included heads of state. While at Brookings, he also served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the Obama Administration. Hady Amr joined the State Department in 2013 and serves as U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations for Economics and Gaza. From 2010 until joining the State Department, he was USAID’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East, deputy head of a 600 person bureau that managed $1.6 billion in United States foreign assistance to the Middle East including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Yemen. At the onset of the Arab Spring, in addition to being responsible for strategic dimensions of U.S. foreign assistance to these countries, he took on a leadership role in crafting the U.S. assistance response to Libya, Syria and Tunisia.
As an appointee in the Clinton Administration at the U.S. Department of Defense, he helped establish the Near East South Asia Center for Stra tegic Studies at the National Defense University. Mr. Amr received a BA from Tufts University in economics in 1988 and an MPA in Economics and Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1994.
