Steven Simon is a former United States National Security Council senior director for the Middle East and North Africa.
[1] He also previously served as the Executive Director IISS-US and Corresponding Director IISS-Middle East [2] and as a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute based in Washington, D.C.[3] He was Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Steven Simon is now a visiting professor at Colby College in Maine.
[4][5] In 1999 Steven Simon moved to Britain, where he worked as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
After Simon left the IISS he specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation,[6] before he became a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).