Michael Singh is managing director and Lane-Swig senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a post he assumed in 2010, and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council.
During his tenure at the White House from 2005 to 2008, Singh was responsible for devising and coordinating U.S. national security policy toward the region stretching from Morocco to Iran, with a particular emphasis on Iran’s nuclear and regional activities, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria and security cooperation in the broader Middle East. Previously, Singh served as special assistant to Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell and at the U.S. embassy in Israel.
Singh is a member of the governance board of the Vandenberg Coalition, a nonpartisan network of foreign policy scholars and practitioners who believe in the power of American leadership to protect American national security. He served as a Senate-confirmed member of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace from 2022 to 2025.