Grace Wermenbol

Dr. Grace Wermenbol serves as a Middle East Specialist at the Department of State, with a particular focus on the Middle East Peace Process and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is also a Professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute. The Middle East Policy Council listed her in their 40 Under 40 awards for influential Middle East experts in 2023. 

Dr. Wermenbol previously was a Middle East Director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she served both on the National Intelligence Management Council and, more recently, the National Intelligence Council. Earlier in her career, she lectured at the University of Oxford, where she taught on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and was a researcher at Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations.   

Dr. Wermenbol is the author of  A Tale of Two Narratives (Cambridge University Press, 2021), a study of Israeli and Palestinian societies in the post-Oslo era, and a co-author of IISS’ 2020 and 2021 Armed Conflict Survey (Routledge). She received her DPhil and master’s from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College. The views represented here are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of State or the U.S. Government.