Brad Gordon

 

Director, Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC

Cum laude, Politics, Brandeis University

M.A., Political Science, University of Vermont

M. Phil., Columbia University

Mr. Gordon is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Director of Policy and Government Affairs, a position created in October 2005. He is responsible for guiding AIPAC’s policy development, lobbying, research, and policy communications activities. He had been AIPAC’s Legislative Director since January 1995. From February 1993 to January 1995, he was staff director of the International Operations Subcommittee of the House of Foreign Affairs Committee. The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), oversaw the operations of the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the U.S. Information Agency.

From March 1990 to January 1993, Mr. Gordon was assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for Nonproliferation Policy. He was responsible for issues related to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. Mr. Gordon was also U.S. Ambassador to the Fourth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held in Geneva in August and September 1990.

Between 1985 and 1989, Mr. Gordon was legislative advisor for foreign policy to Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN), and between 1985 and 1987 was the professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee responsible for the Middle East and South Asia.

Mr. Gordon worked as a political analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1979 to 1985 in the office of Near East and South Asian Analysis.

Mr. Gordon graduated cum laude and with Honors in Politics from Brandeis University in 1971. He received a Master of Arts Degree in political science in 1974 from the University of Vermont, where he also taught Hebrew and was the Director of Hillel. He received a Masters of Philosophy degree from Columbia University in 1978 and a Certificate from its Middle East Institute in 1977. While at Columbia, Mr. Gordon was a National Defense Foreign Language Fellow in Arabic and was selected Research Assistant for its Middle East Institute.

Mr. Gordon is married and has three children.