1. Hady Amr was born on April 8,1967 and is an American government official who served as special representative for Palestinian affairs from 2022 to 2025.
17 Facts About Hady Amr
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Hady Amr was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs within the US Department of State.
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Hady Amr was appointed to the role under President Joe Biden on January 20,2021.
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Hady Amr was born in Lebanon, and has close ties to the region, being praised by both Israeli and Palestinian leaders alike.
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Hady Amr is a policy analyst and author in the area of US relations with the Muslim world and on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanon, Jordan, and the economic and social development of the Arab world.
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Hady Amr has served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, as a Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East at the United States Agency for International Development, and as United States Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations from 2014 to 2017.
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Hady Amr served in the administration of Bill Clinton in the Department of Defense.
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Hady Amr served as an appointee, at which time he served briefly at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University.
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Hady Amr worked for and advised the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and other international institutions.
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Hady Amr is a former economist and a consultant to the World Bank and the United Nations.
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Hady Amr has written extensively about the impact of Palestinian uprisings and the prospects of peace in the region.
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Hady Amr is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and previously served on Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Advisory Committee.
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Hady Amr served as United States Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations from 2014 to 2017, working on a team under Secretary of State John Kerry, focusing on economic issues.
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Hady Amr joined the negotiations team in the summer of 2013.
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In November 2020, Hady Amr was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of State.
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Hady Amr is the author of publications including The Need to Communicate: How to Improve US Public Diplomacy with the Islamic World and "The Opportunity of the Obama Era: How Civil Society Can Help Bridge Divides between the United States and a Diverse Muslim World" published by Brookings.
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Hady Amr has been published by Newsweek, The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and The Daily Star.