Michael R. Fenzel
Michael R. Fenzel is a United States Army lieutenant general who serves as the United States Security Coordinator of the Israel-Palestinian Authority since November 2021. He most recently served as the vice director for strategy, plans, and policy of the Joint Staff. Prior to serving in that position, he was the senior military advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation in the United States Department of State. During the attacks on 11 September 2001, Fenzel, as a major, was on a White House Fellowship serving under Richard Clarke. He was tasked to join Vice President Dick Cheney in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center and liaise with Clarke.
In July 2021, Fenzel was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the United States Security Coordinator for the Israel-Palestinian Authority, replacing Mark C. Schwartz.
In 2025, his former Chief of Staff Colonel Steve Gabavics accused Fenzel of suppressing investigative findings regarding the slain Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
He earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University, U.S. Naval War College, Harvard University, and Naval Postgraduate School.