Gilead Sher is a nonresident fellow at the Baker Institute. He was chief of staff and policy coordinator to former Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, a senior negotiator with the Palestinians at the Camp David Summit and the Taba talks (1999–2000), and a delegate to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement negotiations under former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Sher also served as a senior fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). He was a visiting professor and Israel studies fellow at Georgetown University in 2019, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2016, and a nonresident guest lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

As a reserve colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, Sher served as a company, battalion, and brigade commander as well as a deputy armored corps division commander. During his compulsory service, he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Sher authored “The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001: Within Reach” (Routledge, 2006) and “The Battle for Home” (Yedioth Aharonot, 2016), and co-edited “Negotiating in Times of Conflict” (ContentoNow, 2016), “Spoilers and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli-Arab Negotiations” (Indiana University Press, 2019), and “Reflections on Conflict Resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond” (World Scientific Publishing, 2022).

Sher is a senior partner at Gilead Sher & Co. Law Offices. He serves on a number of corporate executive boards and public councils and chaired the executive board of directors of Sapir Academic College, one of Israel’s largest public colleges.

Contact at [email protected] or +97 252 894 1941.