Gilead Sher was Chief of Staff and policy coordinator to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a senior negotiator at the Camp David summit and 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. The law firm he heads, 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 (2022); he co-edited Negotiating in Times of Conflict (2015) and Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers (2019). His book Reflections on Conflict resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond (2022) comprises 15 of his authored and coauthored articles.