The Rumi Forum presented ‘Israeli-Turkish Relations and the US’ with Barry Jacobs, Director of Strategic Studies, AJC (American Jewish Committee).
Barry Jacobs is the American Jewish Committee’s Director of Strategic Studies in the Office of Government and International Affairs. He follows political affairs and offers counsel on Asia, particularly China, Japan and the two Koreas, the Subcontinent, Central Asia and the Caucasus and the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey and Cyprus). He is also a specialist in multilateral issues, particularly international trade, energy and weapons systems with an emphasis on nuclear weapons and proliferation. He was a Senior Foreign Service Officer with the United States Information Agency from 1968-94, receiving its highest commendations on two occasions, and served in seven countries on four continents. In 1994, he joined the Discovery Channel as its first Director, later Vice President, for International Media for its new networks in Latin America and Asia. He has degrees from the University of Michigan, the National War College and The George Washington University, was a Salzburg Fellow and did graduate study as a Monroe Scholar at the London School of Economics.