Salam Fayyad is a former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. An economist with a long career at the IMF, Dr. Fayyad currently serves as the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in Public Policy at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; a Kent Visiting Professor in Conflict Resolution at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (Fall 2026); a Distinguished Fellow at the Columbia University Institute of Global Politics; a Distinguished Fellow at Brookings; and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.


