Salem Barahmeh is the Executive Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the US Middle East Project and a Al-Shabaka policy member. Previously he worked as an international affairs advisor to Dr. Hanan Ashrawi at the PLO. He has also worked at Portland Communications in London, as a Policy and Public Affairs Advisor governments, and separately as Congressional Affairs Officer at the Palestinian Embassy to the United States.