Deborah Lipstadt is a historian, academic and author. Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holocaust History on Trial; and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.

 

Special envoy Lipstadt is probably best known for having been sued for libel by David Irving, one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. That trial was depicted in the 2016 film “Denial”, with Rachel Weisz playing Lipstadt.

 

She has held a Presidential appointment to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (from Presidents Clinton and Obama) and was asked by President George W Bush to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

 

As special envoy, Lipstadt leads efforts to advance US foreign policy to counter antisemitism throughout the world.