ITAI REUVENI

Expert on the Middle East, Civil Society, Antisemitism and Terrorism

Director of Communications at NGO Monitor

Associate Fellow in The Forum for Foreign Relations

Itai Reuveni is an expert on social movements and civil society, NGO’s role in conflict, foreign funding, terrorism and antisemitism. Itai is currently the Director of Communications at NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem based non-profit research institute.

For more than 7 years, until 2019, Itai was also the director of the Israel Research Desk. Itai is an alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program, a prestigious program run by the United States State Department that deals with issues relating to the promotion of human rights. Itai earned a BA in Political Science and Iranian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also obtained an MA in Political Science and International Affairs.

In 2018, he was included in Makor Rishon’s list of the most influential young adults in Israel, and in 2019 he was awarded Haifa University’s “Online Ambassadors Award” for his work in combating antisemitism.