Nomi Bar-Yaacov is an award-winning international human rights lawyer, peace negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, with extensive experience convening sensitive back-channel negotiations, primarily, but not exclusively in the Middle East. Nomi advises senior executives, boards and founders on high-stakes negotiations, offering bespoke strategic guidance to corporations and start-ups navigating complex and volatile environments. She also delivers negotiation and leadership training to diplomatic academies and leading business schools. A sought-after global keynote speaker, she addresses universities, literary festivals and corporate audiences worldwide on geopolitics, negotiation and strategic communication. She serves on several boards focused on preventive diplomacy and global security, and currently lectures on leadership, international security, diplomacy and negotiations. Her previous roles include serving as speechwriter and Associate Spokesperson to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as well as political adviser in the UN Executive Office covering the Security Council. She was Director of Middle East and Conflict Management Programmes at International Institute for Strategic Studies, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and she is currently a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is a leading media commentator on regional and global security, regularly appearing on major international outlets including the BBC, Sky News, France 24, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera. Nomi Bar-Yaacov is an award-winning international human rights lawyer, peace negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, with extensive experience convening sensitive back-channel negotiations, primarily, but not exclusively in the Middle East. Nomi advises senior executives, boards and founders on high-stakes negotiations, offering bespoke strategic guidance to corporations and start-ups navigating complex and volatile environments. She also delivers negotiation and leadership training to diplomatic academies and leading business schools. A sought-after global keynote speaker, she addresses universities, literary festivals and corporate audiences worldwide on geopolitics, negotiation and strategic communication. She serves on several boards focused on preventive diplomacy and global security, and currently lectures on leadership, international security, diplomacy and negotiations. Her previous roles include serving as speechwriter and Associate Spokesperson to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as well as political adviser in the UN Executive Office covering the Security Council. She was Director of Middle East and Conflict Management Programmes at International Institute for Strategic Studies, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and she is currently a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is a leading media commentator on regional and global security, regularly appearing on major international outlets including the BBC, Sky News, France 24, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera. Nomi Bar-Yaacov is an award-winning international human rights lawyer, peace negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, with extensive experience convening sensitive back-channel negotiations, primarily, but not exclusively in the Middle East. Nomi advises senior executives, boards and founders on high-stakes negotiations, offering bespoke strategic guidance to corporations and start-ups navigating complex and volatile environments. She also delivers negotiation and leadership training to diplomatic academies and leading business schools. A sought-after global keynote speaker, she addresses universities, literary festivals and corporate audiences worldwide on geopolitics, negotiation and strategic communication. She serves on several boards focused on preventive diplomacy and global security, and currently lectures on leadership, international security, diplomacy and negotiations. Her previous roles include serving as speechwriter and Associate Spokesperson to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as well as political adviser in the UN Executive Office covering the Security Council. She was Director of Middle East and Conflict Management Programmes at International Institute for Strategic Studies, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and she is currently a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is a leading media commentator on regional and global security, regularly appearing on major international outlets including the BBC, Sky News, France 24, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera.