Fadi Elsalameen (born in Hebron on December 12, 1983 ‎) is a non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Elsalameen is also the president of the Palestinian Security Project, a think tank that has been created to develop a Palestinian national security vision and strategy. Elsalameen is also the chairman of the Marwan Barghouti for president campaign. Elsalameen was an adjunct senior fellow at the American Security Project, a Washington, DC think tank that has been created to develop an American national security vision and strategy for the 21st century. Elsalameen wss also a fellow with the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program, a nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. He was the director general of Palestine Note. Before that, he served as the director of institutional advancement at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) where he established the Development Department by securing the first foundation grant to the organization.

 

Elsalameen worked as a program adviser at the Imaginenations Group where he worked with teams of international development finance and youth experts to design investment strategies for youth in the Middle East and South America.

Elsalameen received a full scholarship to The Gunnery private boarding school in Washington, Connecticut. Later he graduated from Earlham College with a B.S. in biochemistry and political science and then received a Masters in International Relations and Economics with a specialization in China Studies from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). Elsalameen speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Mandarin-Chinese.