International Board

Ramez F. Sousou

Ramez Sousou is Founder and co-CEO of TowerBrook Capital Partners. TowerBrook is an international investment firm operating in Europe and the United States.

Mr Sousou was previously co-Head of Soros Private Equity and was a member of the Management Committee of Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, he was a senior member of the Principal Investments group of Goldman Sachs.

He is a Trustee of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the American School in London. He is also a Trustee and the founding Chairman of the Private Equity Foundation, the leading European venture philanthropy organisation. Mr Sousou is Chairman of Alpha Partners and sits on the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project.

Mr Sousou is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.



General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

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Can Kerry Rescue a Two-State Peace Accord?

If the purpose of President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel was to dispel the view held by most Israelis, and by rightwing American Jewish supporters of AIPAC and the Likud’s annexationist policies, that he is hostile to Israel and to the Zionist enterprise, it must be judged a brilliant success. Not everyone was converted, but his words and personal charm seemed to have worked wonders on most Israelis.
While his visit was not expected to revive prospects for a two-state solution, he spoke far more directly and energetically about the need for an end to Israel’s occupation and about his own continuing efforts to help the parties achieve an agreement than his recent disengagement from the peace process prepared anyone for. But nothing he said in Jerusalem or Ramallah–and, more importantly, that he failed to say–justifies an expectation that his reengagement will be of a kind that has any chance of preventing Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from finally nailing down the coffin in which they are burying a viable two-state outcome.

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