Eran Schwartz

Eran Schwartz is a nonresident scholar in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

He previously served as CEO and co-founder of Israel’s Democracy Headquarters, helping lead and coordinate the nationwide movement to defend Israeli democracy. His career spans senior leadership roles in government, civil society, and education, including serving as deputy director general at Israel’s Ministry of Social Equality and CEO of a leading Israeli nonprofit organization focused on leadership education and building a shared society. Earlier in his career, he served as a pilot and commander in the Israeli Air Force.

Schwartz is a Ph.D. candidate at Tel Aviv University, researching how inclusive political identities and institutions can strengthen democratic resilience in divided societies. He holds four master’s degrees in public administration, political science, communication, and Jewish-Israeli studies, including an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and also studied political philosophy at Sciences Po Paris.