Dr. Eran Lerman

MPA from the Kennedy School of Government (Wexner Program), Harvard University
Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics
B.A. in Modern Middle Eastern History and General History, Tel Aviv University (Summa cum Laude)

Colonel (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman is a lecturer in the Shalem College Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security and in the Tel Aviv University Department of Political Science. He is also the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (where many of his recent writings can be found, at www.jiss.org.il) and, since 2021, the editor-in-chief of Jerusalem Strategic Tribune (www.jstribune.org ). A historian by training and the former deputy for foreign policy and international affairs at Israel’s National Security Council, Lerman has also served as director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel/Middle East Office and in senior positions at the Israel Defense Forces’ Directorate of Military Intelligence. He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and a mid-career MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A third-generation “Sabra,” he is married to Annelies, the father of three, and the proud grandfather of four.