Ksenia Svetlova is an Executive Director of ROPES – The Regional Organization for Peace, Economics and Security and a former member of the Israeli Knesset. She is also an associate fellow at Chatham house.
Svetlova focuses on issues of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Arab relations, Russian influence in the Middle East, as well as the regional and international relations of the Middle East.

She has covered the Middle East for fifteen years at Israeli Channel 9 and has written for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Haaretz, BBC Russian and other international media.
ROPES connects forward thinking young Israeli, Palestinian and MENA leaders who believe in peaceful conflict resolution and regional integration.