Martin Sean Indyk (born July 1, 1951) is a diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.
In addition to serving in academia and as adviser to political administrations, he was a distinguished fellow in International Diplomacy and later executive vice president at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C from 2001-2018.
He took leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as the U.S.
Special Envoy for Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014.
He is currently a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Indyk served twice as United States ambassador to Israel and also as Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration.
He is known as the framer of the U.S.
policy of dual containment in that period, which sought to 'contain' Iraq and Iran.
These were viewed as the United States' two most important strategic adversaries at the time.
He is the author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peacemaking Diplomacy in the Middle East (2014).