- United Kingdom
Nomi Bar-Yaacov Keynote Speaker
- Fellow with the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
- Former Director of the Middle East Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Award recipient from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and United States Institute of Peace among others.
Nomi Bar-Yaacov's Biography
Nomi Bar-Yaacov combines real-world peace negotiation experience with sharp geopolitical analysis and practical negotiation insights, offering audiences a rare insider perspective on the Middle East and on how high-stakes negotiations succeed.
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 in the Middle East. She is a leading media commentator on regional and global security, regularly appearing on BBC, Sky News, France 24, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera.
Nomi advises senior executives, boards and founders on high-stakes negotiations, providing bespoke strategic guidance to corporations and start-ups seeking better outcomes in complex 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. She serves on several boards focused on preventive diplomacy and global security and currently lectures on diplomacy and negotiations.
Her previous roles include speechwriter and Associate Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, political adviser in the UN Executive Office covering the Security Council, Director of Middle East and Conflict Management Programmes at IISS, Associate Fellow at Chatham House. She is currently a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Director of Ethical Negotiations Ltd.
Nomi Bar-Yaacov's Speaking Topics
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Understanding Current and Future Conflict in the Middle East
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How the Middle East Is Changing and What This All Means for Global Affairs and the Economy
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What’s Next with Iran, the Middle East, and the World
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How to Negotiate
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Middle East geopolitics and security
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High-Stakes Negotiation Strategy
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Leadership Under Pressure
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Negotiation Tactics Used in International Diplomacy
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Strategies for Managing High-Stakes Conflict
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Methods for Navigating Complex Stakeholders
Why Book Nomi Bar-Yaacov as a speaker?
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She translates fast moving global crises into practical implications for leaders, drawing on decades of experience as an award-winning peace negotiator, an international diplomat with vast experience in crises zones.
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She is the lead commentator for BBC, SKY News, CNN, and France 24 on geopolitics and Middle Eastern Affairs, translating complex dynamics into language leaders and decisions makers understand and act upon. Her insights into geopolitics, security and economic forces reshaping international order are profound and highly impactful.
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She brings rare access and first hand perspectives from working for decades with state leaders and senior decision-makers quietly behind the scenes.
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She equips senior teams to navigate government, business and defence intersections with confidence, informed by her experience as speechwriter and political adviser to the UN Secretary General and former Director of the Middle East programme and Conflict Management programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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She helps organisations with strategy and communications, navigating tricky uncertainty with clarity and focus aiming to ensure goals are met with confidence.
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She equips senior teams to navigate negotiation strategy with confidence given her experience spanning over decades in international negotiations.
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