GIDI GRINSTEIN

Gidi Grinstein (36) has served as Secretary and Coordinator of the Israeli negotiation team on the Permanent Status Agreement between Israel and the PLO in the Office and later in the Bureau of Prime Minister Ehud Barak (1999-01).

Prior and following his service in the GOI (1995-99 and 2002-03 respectively), Gidi worked for the Economic Cooperation Foundation where he coordinated and led various policy projects. During 1996-99 he coordinated dozens of senior experts in multiple working groups in an effort to prepare portfolios for possible Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on Permanent Status.

He is the founder of Yesodot Group for reforming Israeli Governance; a member of Kol-Dor Group for global Jewish Peoplehood; was a member of "Israel 2025 – Scenarios for Future Developments"; and was a founding member of a group that worked to realize the vision of the "Birthright Israel" program.

Gidi is a graduate of the Tel-Aviv University schools of Economics (1991) and Law (1999) and of Harvard University Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner-Israel Fellow (2002). He is a Captain (Res.) in the Israeli Navy.