Seth Binder is the Director of Policy and Government Relations at the American Committee for Middle East Rights (ACMER). From 2018 to 2026, Seth was at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), where he first served as POMED’s advocacy officer and then Director of Advocacy, and following a merger with The Freedom Initiative, he continued on as Director of Advocacy for the newly formed Middle East Democracy Center. Prior to that he was the program manager and research associate at the Center for International Policy’s Security Assistance Monitor program, where he focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales policy.

He has authored numerous articles and publications on U.S. foreign policy, foreign aid, and security assistance towards the Middle East and North Africa, with particular focus on Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, and Tunisia and has been quoted in numerous outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, TIME, Al-Jazeera, and Foreign Policy. He is the co-author of Mohammed VI’s Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development (Routledge Press, 2020) and “The Moroccan Spring and King Mohammed VI’s Economic Policy Agenda: Evaluating the First Dozen Years,” a chapter in The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing of the Middle East.

Seth received his B.A. in History from Oberlin College and M.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he received certificates in Advanced Study in Middle Eastern Affairs and International Counterterrorism.