Dr. Lt. Col. (Res.) Gadi Yishayahu

Research Fellow, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University; Senior Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF), Cambridge; Former Official, Israeli PMO

Dr. Gadi Yishayahu is an internationally recognized scholar and practitioner specializing in foreign policy crises and crisis management. He holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from Bar-Ilan University and a Ph.D. in International Politics from the University of London (City), where he lectures as a Visiting Scholar.

He recently completed a tenure as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, and is currently a Senior Fellow and Lead Researcher on Security and Crisis at the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum (MENAF).

His professional experience spans the public, private, and business sectors. He has held positions in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, worked in the business sector for Deloitte Economic Consulting Services (1986) Ltd, and served as a senior associate at a commercial law firm in Tel Aviv. Additionally, he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).