Seth Binder is Director of Policy and Government Relations​, American Committee for Middle East Rights. Previously, he was the Director of Advocacy at the Middle East Democracy Center where he focused on U.S. policy, security assistance, and arms sales to the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining MEDC (and its predecessor POMED), Binder was the Program Manager at the Center for International Policy for the Security Assistance Monitor program where he focused on U.S. security assistance and arms sales policy where, among others, he authored articles and publications on US security assistance to Egypt, Palestine, Yemen, Israel, and Tunisia. He has been quoted in numerous outlets including Reuters, 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. 

He 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.