Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations. In 2020–2021 she was a visiting scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Kaye served as the director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation from 2012–2020 and as a senior political scientist at RAND since 2005. Before joining RAND, she lived in The Netherlands where she was an international affairs fellow at the Dutch Foreign Ministry, a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and a research scholar at The Netherlands Institute of International Studies. Kaye began her academic career as a professor of political science and international affairs at The George Washington University. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recipient of many other awards and fellowships, she is a frequent public speaker and commentator on international affairs and Middle East policy. Kaye 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 numerous journal articles, op-eds, and RAND studies. Dalia holds a BA, MA, and PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley
