Yoav Sivan (יואב סיון) is an Israeli journalist, now based in New York.
Yoav's columns have appeared in American, Israeli and European publications in Hebrew, English, French and Spanish. He has been quoted in The Economist and Neue Zürcher Zeitung among other publications.
He worked as a staff member for two members of the Knesset, and served on the Boards of the Jerusalem Open House, the Aguda (Israel's LGBT Association), and the World Jewish Congress (Israel).
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.
Yoav received his M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a White House Correspondents' Association scholar. The award was presented by First Lady Michelle Obama at the Correspondents' Dinner, 2010. He studied economics, philosophy and accounting at Tel Aviv University where he received his B.A., and at the economics graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Meeting new friends at the Correspondents' Dinner, May 1, 2010.
Yoav can be reached at yoav [at] YoavSivan.com