Dr. Michael J. Koplow is an expert on Israel. Currently, he is the chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum and a senior research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He writes Israel Policy Forum’s weekly "Koplow Column" and edits Israel Policy Exchange, which is a leading source for commentary and analysis on Israel and American Jewry.Previously, Koplow was the founding program director of the Israel Institute.Koplow's work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, and the Forward.Koplow received his B.A. from Brandeis University, his J.D. from New York University, his A.M. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.