Executive Director of Fulbright Israel. Prior to joining Fulbright Anat Lapidot-Firilla worked as a Senior research fellow and academic director of the Mediterranean Neighbours Unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and teacher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Between 2005 and 2007 she was academic director of the 'Women accessibility to equal citizenship in the Middle East' project at the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lapidot-Firilla was also the founding editor of the Journal of Levantine Studies, and her research focuses on various aspects of religion, politics, and identity, with an emphasis on Turkey.