Emanuele Ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi is the executive director of AJC's Transatlantic Institute. Ottolenghi is a recognized expert on transatlantic relations and Middle East affairs and widely regarded as an important source for news media. His op-ed articles have appeared in the National Review, New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, among other leading newspapers and magazines. Prior to joining the Transatlantic Institute, he was the Leone Ginzburg Research Fellow in Israel Studies at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Middle East Center at St. Antony's College. He has held positions at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as the University of New South Wales, in Australia. Born in Bologna, Italy, Ottolenghi speaks English, French, Hebrew and Italian.