Mark Dubowitz was born on 11 September 1968 and is a South African-born Canadian-American attorney and former venture capitalist, currently serving as CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a non-profit think-tank.
11 Facts About Mark Dubowitz
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Mark Dubowitz is a proponent of sanctions against Iran and was a leading critic of the Iran nuclear agreement, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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Mark Dubowitz was a leading critic of the Iran nuclear agreement, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but then tried to save it after President Trump withdrew from the agreement according to his own account.
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Mark Dubowitz earned a Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto.
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Mark Dubowitz spent the first 8 years after law school working on funding technology start-ups in Toronto, as an attorney and venture capitalist in Toronto.
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Mark Dubowitz is the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Mark Dubowitz co-founded FDD's Center on Economic and Financial Power and FDD's Center on Military and Political Power, and is the author or co-author of more than twenty studies on economic sanctions.
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Mark Dubowitz is co-chair of the Project on US Middle East Nonproliferation Strategy.
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Mark Dubowitz joined the FDD in 2003 and became an authority on international terrorism and sanctions against states that sponsor terrorism such as Iran and North Korea.
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Mark Dubowitz is a lecturer and senior research fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he teaches and conducts research on international negotiations, sanctions, and Iran's nuclear program.
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Mark Dubowitz authored or co-authored several op-eds on the Iran deal, published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.