Gilead Sher

Gilead Sher

Gilead Sher was chief of staff and policy coordinator to Israeli PM Barak, a senior negotiator at the Camp David summit and Taba talks (1999-2001), and a delegate to the 1994–95 Israeli- Palestinian Interim Agreement negotiations under PM Rabin. Over the last two and a half decades, Sher led numerous track-two negotiations. He is a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies INSS. A reputable expert in negotiations and conflict resolution, Sher was a visiting professor and Israel studies fellow at Georgetown University in 2019 and is currently the Brochstein fellow in in Honor of Yitzhak Rabin at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. A senior partner at the law firm Gilead Sher & Co., Sher serves on several corporate executive boards in the United States, Israel and Australia and chairs the executive board of Sapir Academic College, the largest public college in Israel. His expertise encompasses international negotiations; commercial law; public, administrative and election law, complex projects and project finance, arbitration, and other dispute resolution proceedings. As a reserve officer in the IDF, Colonel Sher served as a company, battalion, and brigade commander, and as a deputy armored corps division commander. During his compulsory service, Sher fought the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He was a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School (fall 2016) and a non-resident guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School (Negotiating in Times of Crisis 2002-2012). Sher is the author of The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001 (2006) and The Battle for Home (2016), as well as coeditor of Negotiating in Times of Conflict (2015) and Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers (2019).