Staff

NGO Monitor Staff

Professor Gerald Steinberg, President

Prof. Gerald Steinberg is President of NGO Monitor and the Chairman of the Political Studies Department at Bar Ilan University. His research interests include Middle East diplomacy and security, the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Israeli politics and arms control. He was also a consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, participates in track-two workshops, the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism ICCA, and is a member of the academic advisory board of the Israel Law Review.

His op-ed columns appear in the Jerusalem Post, and in the Wall St. Journal (Europe); Financial Times, National Review Online, International Herald Tribune, and other publications, and he is a frequent commentator on CBC, NPR, the BBC, and others.

Recent academic publications include "Europe's Failed Middle East Policies"; "Soft Powers Play Hardball: NGOs Wage War against Israel ", and "The UN, the ICJ and the Separation Barrier: War by Other Means" (Israel Law Review). He is also completing research on human rights and politics during the 2006 Lebanon war, funded by the prestigious Israel Science Foundation.
 

NGO-related articles by Professor Steinberg:

• "NGOs and the Durban Review Conference: History Repeating Itself," World Jewish Congress Research Institute, Policy Study 32, September 2008.
• "An NGO black hole in the Foreign Ministry," Jerusalem Post, July 08, 2008.
• "Analysis: Terror’s predictable spontaneity," Jerusalem Post, July 3, 2008.
• "Funding Israel´s Detractors," Wall Street Journal Europe, May 06, 2008.
• Europe’s Hidden Hand: EU Funding for Political NGOs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, NGO Monitor Monograph Series, April 2008.
• "Durban 2009: Will the NGOs Join Canada?" Canadian Jewish News, March 20, 2008.
• "U.S. Image Problem; Watching Human Rights," International Herald Tribune, March 9 2008.
• "Soft Powers Play Hardball,"Israel Affairs, Vol.12, No.4, October 2006, pp.748–768.
• "The Centrality of NGOs in the Durban Strategy," Yale Israel Journal, Summer 2006.
• "Monitoring the Political Role of NGOs," Jerusalem Viewpoints, JCPA, June 1, 2003.

Click here a catalogue of Professor Steinberg’s publications.

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)
• 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