Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams was born on January 24, 1948 in New York City, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School and the London School of Economics. After working on the staffs of the late Senators Henry M. Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, he served all eight years of the Reagan Administration as an assistant secretary of state and received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Abrams is former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He was a member and later chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001 and was reappointed to membership in 2012. He is currently a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council, which directs the activities of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Abrams is the author or editor of six books. He served at the White House as a deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised US policy in the Middle East. Abrams is now a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches about US policy in the Middle East at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.