Yoav Sivan is a journalist, political consultant and human rights activist from Tel Aviv. He is now attending the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

Yoav's columns on American, Israeli and European politics have appeared in Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Jewish Chronicle, The Jewish Week of New York, Alternatives Internationales-Liberation and New York's Gay City News. He has been quoted in The Economist among other publications.

In Israel, he has served as a staff member for two members of the Knesset. He was previously the head of the international news division of Attention America, a U.S.-based political consulting and communications firm.

Yoav's human rights work has been national and international. He currently serves a member of the Israeli Board of Directors of the World Jewish Congress. He has served as LGBT Coordinator of the International Union of Socialist Youth, and on the Boards of two leading organizations in Israel:  the Jerusalem Open House and the Aguda, Israel's LGBT Association.

Yoav has studied economics, accounting and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, where he received his B.A., and at the graduate level at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He has spoken at conferences throughout Israel, Europe and the United States, including at the annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee and the annual convention of the French Socialist Party, where he participated in a forum on Israel's Second Lebanon War.  It was the first time an Israeli and a Lebanese shared a stage to talk about the war.