Ambassador Dennis Ross met with International Studies majors for lunch yesterday in an event run by the International Studies Leadership Committee. Ross is currently counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He has been a Middle East adviser to five presidents, including two years as special assistant to President Obama. He was also the primary point person on the Middle East peace process in both the first Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, and was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. He has also played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. Ambassador Ross has published extensively on the former Soviet Union, arms control, and the greater Middle East, contributing numerous chapters to anthologies and authored many op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His most recent book is Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama.