Contributor(s): Henry Siegman | Henry Siegman is president of the U.S./Middle East Project, an initiative focused on U.S.-Middle East policy and the Israel-Palestine conflict, launched by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1994. The organization was established as an independent policy institute in 2006 under the chairmanship of General Brent Scowcroft. Mr Siegman is also a visiting research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a consultant for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref) in Oslo. Mr Siegman has published extensively on the Middle East peace process and has been consulted by governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations.