Peter A. Joseph is an international businessman. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Israel Policy Forum, a founder of the Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, a trustee of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and a former trustee of the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion.  He has also devoted time to areas of public policy as a member of the Board of the New York City Citizens Budget Commission and of the Third Way (a DC-based public policy research institute). During the Obama Administration, he served as a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.