Daniel E. Zoughbie is an entrepreneur, complex-systems scientist, diplomatic historian, and expert on presidential decision-making. He is Associate Project Scientist at UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy, and Economics in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health.  Zoughbie is Principal Investigator of Berkeley's Middle East and North Africa Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative, a faculty affiliate at Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. 

Zoughbie was appointed Vice Chair of Berkeley's CMES, Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University's Berkley Center, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Visiting Scholar at University of Bologna Department of History and Cultures, Visiting Fellow at Trinity College Dublin's Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Visiting Researcher at the University of Athens Medical School, and Visiting Scientist at Campus Bio Medico University of Rome. 

Zoughbie is the author of Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (MIT Press, 2014), and Kicking the Hornet's Nest: US Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump (Simon & Schuster, 2025).  His award-winning global public health research has been published in academic journals, including PLOS Medicine, PLOS Complex Systems, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, BMC Public Health, PLOS Medicine, Frontiers in Epidemiology, Preventative Medicine, PLOS One, JAIDS, and Social Science and Medicine. 

Zoughbie was awarded grants from the World Diabetes Foundation, the International Diabetes Federation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Fulbright Commission and Department of Education. He was named a TED Fellow, a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a PopTech Fellow, and a Moderator of the Robin Hambro Seminar in Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship and completed his doctorate, also at Oxford, as a Weidenfeld Scholar.  He is the founder of Microclinic International and was previously appointed to the Board of Directors for the San Mateo County Community Colleges District Foundation and to the Governing Board for CASA at the University of Arizona.