David Benger is an associate at Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer in New York City. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as the chapter president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law, the Events Chair of the HLS Alliance for Israel, and an editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy and the HLS National Security Journal. Previously, he was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he studied international relations with a focus on international law and Israel-China relations. He received his BA summa cum laude in Politics and Russian Studies from Brandeis University.

When he is not focused on his career, David enjoys classical theater, aviation, and watch collecting.

David is delighted to participate in the LEAD program.  He shared: “I care deeply about the future education of young Jewish people across the globe. I believe that, more than ever, Hebrew University will have a central role to play in that arena over the next decade. As diaspora universities fall one by one to trendy antisemitic slogans, Hebrew University will have to stand ready for far greater enrollments from international students, not just for study abroad but for full-fledged undergraduate and graduate degrees taught in English. Hebrew University understands the challenges, and I was thrilled to see the launch of its new English-language bachelor’s degree curriculum. This is a transition through which I would like to help shepherd Hebrew University to the best of my abilities.”