James Snyder

James S. Snyder is executive chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation, Inc., and director emeritus of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. He also serves as a senior fellow of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. As executive chairman of the Jerusalem Foundation, James works closely with the foundation’s international leadership to formalize and promote the city’s role as an urban model for cross-communal coexistence—across its economic, social, and cultural spectrum and for the mixed community of Jews, Christians, and Muslims who live and work there. During his twenty-year tenure as the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum, James led the museum through the most dramatic period of growth since its founding and secured its stature as one of the world’s foremost museums.