Gregory Levey

Gregory Levey is the author of the new memoir Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government, which was published by Simon and Schuster/Free Press in April, 2008.

He served as the Israeli Government's Speechwriter and one of its delegates at the United Nations, and then went on to serve as Senior Foreign Communications Coordinator and English Speechwriter for Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.

He is a contributing writer for Salon, and has also written for The New Republic, The New York Post, The Globe and Mail, The Jerusalem Post, and others.

Gregory is on the faculty of Ryerson University in Toronto.