Ksenia Svetlova

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme

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Biography

Ksenia Svetlova is an Executive Director of ROPES – The Regional Organization for Peace, Economics and Security and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. She focuses on issues of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Arab relations, Russian influence in the Middle East, as well as the regional and international relations of the Middle East.

She has covered the Middle East for fifteen years at Israeli Channel 9 and has written for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Haaretz, BBC Russian and other international media.

Past experience

2023 -Executive director at ROPES, the Regional Organization for Peace, Economics and Security
2023-Non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council
2019-2023 Research fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Reichman University
2015-2019 Knesset Member, member of the commitee for foreign affairs and defense
2002-2015Middle East Correspondent and Analyst, Channel 9 TV (Israel)