Joshua Krasna, PhD, is a senior researcher at the MDC and the director of the Forum for Regional Cooperation, a consortium of think tanks and researchers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Eastern Mediterranean region who collaborate on research projects. He is a former senior Middle East and strategic analyst for the Israeli government, who served in the Israeli embassies in Jordan and Canada, and as an Instructor at the Israel National Defense College.
He is an analyst specializing in geoeconomic, strategic, and political developments in the Arab World and Eastern Mediterranean, and in Israeli foreign policy. He teaches at New York University and is a Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.