Michael Singh is the managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to advancing American interests in the Middle East. Mr. Singh was senior director for Near East and North African Affairs at the White House from 2007-2008, and director for several Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Syria, on the NSC staff from 2005-2007. Earlier, Mr. Singh served as special assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, as well as staff aide to the US ambassador to Israel.

He co-chaired Gov. Mitt Romney’s State Department transition team in 2012 and served as a Middle East advisor to the Romney presidential campaign from 2011-2012. Mr. Singh has served as an adjunct fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and as an economics instructor at Harvard College. He served as the co-chair of the Congressionally appointed Syria Study Group and serves as a Senate-confirmed member of the Board of Directors of the US Institute of Peace.

Mr. Singh also serves on the Governance Board of the Vandenberg Coalition, and on the National Council of Welcome.US. He is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard universities, and lives in Virginia.