Gilead Sher was Chief of Staff and policy coordinator to Israeli Prime Minister and
Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, a senior negotiator at the Camp David summit and the Taba talks
(1999-2001), and formerly a delegate to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement
negotiations under PM Rabin. He is the Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Middle East Peace
and Security in Honor of Yitzhak Rabin at the Baker Institute and served as a senior fellow at the
Tel Aviv Institute for National Security Studies INSS.
Since 2013, Sher chairs the Executive Board of Sapir Academic College, one of the leading
public colleges in Israel, situated in the Gaza envelope.
In late 2022, he co-founded the Central Headquarters of the Pro-Democracy Resistance
movements, which he co-leads from the outset.
The law firm he founded in 1989, Gilead Sher, Talhami & Co., has extensive experience in
complex commercial, civil, and administrative cases with national, regional, and international
dimensions, negotiation strategy, and representation of leading clients from the business, private,
governmental, and public sectors.
Sher was a visiting professor and Israel studies fellow at Georgetown University in 2019, a
lecturer on law at Harvard Law School in fall 2016 and a non-resident guest lecturer at the
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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,
he fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Sher authored The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001 (2006), The Battle for
Home (2016), and Reflections on Conflict Resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond (2022); he
co-edited Negotiating in Times of Conflict (2015) and Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers (2019).
Committed to securing Israel as the democratic nation-state of the Jewish People along the
principles of the 1948 Declaration of Independence, Sher was the co-founder of the NGO Blue
White Future.