NGO Monitor Staff

Professor Gerald Steinberg, President

Prof. Gerald Steinberg is president of NGO Monitor and professor of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. His research interests include international relations, Middle East diplomacy and security, the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Israeli politics and arms control.

He works with a number of international organizations (NATO, UN University, OSCE, SIPRI); participates in track-two workshops and in the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism ICCA; and is the founder of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar Ilan University.

Recent academic publications include “NGOs, Human Rights, and Political Warfare in the Arab-Israel Conflict”; “Europe's Failed Middle East Policies”; “Uncivil Society: Ideology, Human Rights, and Antisemitism”; and "The UN, the ICJ and the Separation Barrier: War by Other Means” (Israel Law Review). He is also completing research examining the credibility of human rights organizations during the 2006 Lebanon war, under the auspices of the Israel Science Foundation.

His op-ed columns have been published in Wall St. Journal (Europe), Financial Times, Ha’aretz, International Herald Tribune, Jerusalem Post, and other publications. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CBC. CNN, and NPR.

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Dov Yarden, Chief Executive Officer

Originally from Australia, Dov has lived in Israel for twenty years. His vast experience includes over ten years of management in the high tech industry. Dov oversees the day to day management of the organization.  His remit also includes long-term planning and donor relations.

Anne Herzberg, Legal Advisor

Anne is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University Law School where she was named a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  Prior to joining NGO Monitor, she worked as a litigation associate in New York for the law firms Winston & Strawn and Shearman & Sterling. As part of her pro bono work as an associate, Anne assisted asylum seekers and performed work for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.  She has published on the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. 

Publications by Anne Herzberg:

• NGO "Lawfare": Exploitation of Courts in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, NGO Monitor Monograph Series, September 2008.
• “Lawfare Against Israel,” Wall Street Journal - Europe, November 5, 2008.
• "Rule 61:  The Voice of the Victims Screams Out for Justice," 36 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 723 (1998)
• “The UN’s Integral Role in Palestinian Rejectionsm,” with Gerald Steinberg, InFocus Quarterly, Vol. 3 (Fall 2011)
• “Protecting Jews from Campus Antisemitism,” Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Book Review, March 21, 2011
• “An Activist’s Disappointing Evasions,” 22 Jewish Political Studies Review 141 (Fall 2010)
• “The Truth About Gaza,” with Jason Edelstein, Ynet News, October 28, 2011
• “The Legal War on Israel,” Ynet News, June 15, 2011
• “Human Rights Watch and the Selling of Gaddafi,” with Gerald Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, March 10, 2011
• “Civilian Casualties, Gaza and the Political War,” Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2011
• “Israel vs. the International Criminal Court,” Jewish Ideas Daily, November 29, 2010
• Presentation before Irish Parliament's Joint Committee on European Affairs, June 23, 2010
• Appearance on "Today with Pat Kenney," Irish National Radio, June 23, 2010
• Appearance on IBA TV program, Close Up, Februrary 10, 2010
• Appearance on Al Jazeera TV program, Inside Story, February 9, 2010
• “Hey, NIF! Criticism is a Democratic Right,” Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2010
• Interview: “Amid heated rhetoric, Israel’s reply to Goldstone suggests more civil approach,” Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 3, 2010
• “Israel and The Illusion of International Justice,” Anne Herzberg and Gerald Steinberg, Ha'aretz, January 15, 2010
• What ails Human Rights Watch?, Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, October 21, 2009
• NGOs dominate Gaza fact-finding commissions, Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2009
• Interview: Diplomacy is best hope in Spain investigation, legal experts say, Rebecca Anna Stoil, Jerusalem Post, March 02, 2009
• Interview in Panorama (Italy) Magazine, February 13, 2009
• Israel's move into Gaza provokes strong responses, Wall street Journal, January 13, 2009
• NGOs aid Hamas PR campaign, Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2009
• It's time to end the impunity of Human Rights Watch, Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2008
• Ties that blind, Jerusalem Post, December 8, 2008
• Interview in Jerusalem Post Edition Francaise, March 12, 2007