Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal. A native of Queens, New York, and a graduate of Solomon Schechter Day School there, he received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in History from Harvard University. He was a member of Young Judaea, the largest Zionist Youth movement in America for many years, and worked at Camp Tel Yehudah throughout the 1980s.

His two previous books were on American history: Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons, and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate. From 1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of McGill’s history department and in March, 1999 was promoted to full professor.

Troy's column The Ivory Tower, appears monthly in the New York Jewish newspaper, The Forward. He has also published articles recently in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsday, the New York Post, the Montreal Gazette, the National Post, Moment magazine, and the Canadian Jewish News, among others.

He has appeared as a commentator on most major Canadian and American television networks and was the regular Monday Columnist, putting current affairs in broader perspective, for CBC-TV’s "Midday Show," until the show’s cancellation in July, 2000. Troy is also the chairman of the Montreal birthright israel committee.