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United States Martin Indyk was a diplomat and foreign policy analyst who tirelessly worked toward Middle East peace through two ambassadorships and as a special envoy.
After an extraordinary life and legacy that included more than 17 years at Brookings, Martin Indyk passed away on July 25, 2024.
Martin Indyk, my friend, colleague and partner in Mideast peace efforts for decades, passed away this week, leaving the region poorer for his absence.
Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent US think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died.
Indyk was an exceptional public figure. As senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council, assistant...
Martin Indyk was an accomplished negotiator, a creative diplomat, a brilliant scholar and a founding Board member of the Lowy Institute.
Martin Sean Indyk (July 1, 1951 – July 25, 2024) was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.
Indyk, a US ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration, and from 2013 to 2014 a special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Ambassador Indyk was a leading expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as US relations with Israel and the Arab states.
Martin Indyk. Martin Sean Indyk is a diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East. He was a distinguished fellow.
So in 1985 Indyk launched the Washington Institute in partnership with Barb Weinberg, a top AIPAC donor. The think tank remains influential.
Martin Sean Indyk (1951-2024) was born in London and raised in Sydney, Australia, after his family immigrated there from Poland. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1972 with a Bachelor of Economics. His experience volunteering on Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 was a defining moment and sparked his interest in the region. He earned a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977. Indyk immigrated to the United States in 1982, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1993, just before joining the National Security Council.
Indyk began his career in Washington, D.C., as a deputy research director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 1982. He later became the founding Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in 1985, serving for eight years. He held academic positions at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Columbia University, Tel Aviv University, and Macquarie University. Under President Bill Clinton, he served as special assistant to the President and senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, playing a key role in Arab-Israeli issues and the Middle East peace team. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Israel twice, serving from April 1995 to September 1997, and again from January 2000 to July 2001. During this time, he also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from October 1997 to November 1999.
From 2001 to 2018, Indyk was a distinguished fellow and later executive vice president at the Brookings Institution. In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed him as Washington’s special Middle East envoy for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, a position he held until June 2014. He returned to the Brookings Institution before moving to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018, where he was a distinguished fellow until his passing in 2024. Martin Indyk was a prolific author, with notable works including “Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East” (2009) and “Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy” (2021).
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