Shula Gilad is a senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, where she is developing PON’s Middle East Negotiation Initiative (MENI). Shula is also a consultant to various Middle East programs and organizations. Until recently, she was a Senior Consultant to Mercy Corps Conflict Management Group.
Shula earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Brandeis University’s Heller School of Social Policy and Management, where she wrote a dissertation on Israel’s domestic and regional water policy in the 1990s. During her PhD studies, she directed the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
From 1994-1999, Shula was the Director of Policy Research at KSG’s Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East. In that capacity, she directed joint Arab-Israeli research projects on topics related to the Final Status issues, such as water, refugees, Jerusalem, Trade and Security. The outcome of the research was written up in joint reports that were presented to heads of states in the Middle East and to other relevant ministries, institutions and the media, in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
For 18 years prior to that, as a social worker in Israel, Shula designed, founded and managed various experimental projects and was involved in national policy making related to out-of-home care for children at risk. In addition to graduate school in Social Work at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University, Shula received her PhD. From Brandeis, M.Ed. from UMass and BA from U.C. Berkeley.
