Hillary Mann Leverett

Hillary Mann Leverett, a career Foreign Service Officer, focuses on the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions. Her government service includes positions at the National Security Council, with the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and as Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo, Egypt.

In addition to her government service, she was from 1996 - 1998, the Terrorism Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Previously, she was an Attorney/Adviser on Middle East issues for a Washington DC law firm and a Fulbright Scholar and Watson Fellow working in the U.S. Embassies in Kuwait, Egypt, and Israel during the 1990-1991 Gulf War.

She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brandeis University, has studied at the American University in Cairo and Tel Aviv University, speaks Arabic and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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