Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tamara Cofman Wittes is an American writer together with public figure. She is the senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. She directed the Center from March 2012 through March 2017. From November 2009 through January 2012, she was a Deputy Assistant Secretary for near Eastern Affairs at the United States Department of State. Wittes has solution about U.S. foreign policy, democratic change in the Arab world as well as about the Arab–Israeli conflict. She is also a co-host of the Rational Security podcast.

She is President Joe Biden's nominee to be an Assistant admin for the United States company for International Development for the Middle East, after he announced her nomination on July 19, 2021.

Education

Wittes is a graduate 1987 of East Lansing High School in East Lansing, Michigan.

She received her BA 1991 from Oberlin College and her MA 1995 and PhD 2000 from Georgetown University. Her dissertation mentor at Georgetown was the slow Professor Christopher C. Joyner.