Tommy Steiner is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Policy

and Strategy, IDC Herzliya. At the Institute, Tommy works on various

policy research projects focusing mainly on EU and NATO relations

with Israel, the Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East.

A member of the founding team of the Annual Herzliya Conference

Series, Tommy managed the Conference series from 2007 through

2013 - a period during which the Herzliya Conference became

considered one of the top international policy conferences.

Concurrently, Tommy teaches International Relations and

Security Studies at IDC's Lauder School of Government. 

Tommy served as the executive director of the Atlantic Forum of

Israel, a network-based policy organization that promoted and

advanced Israel's relations with the Euro-Atlantic Community,

and which was especially instrumental in enhancing NATO-Israel relations. Tommy earned his MA (cum laude) in International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the recipient of the Yehoshafat Harkaby Award from the Hebrew University's Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations.