Dr. Nimrod Goren is Co-Founder and Executive Board Member of Diplomeds – The Council for Mediterranean Diplomacy, and the President and Founder of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.
He also serves as Senior Advisor on Israel affairs and Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking at CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation and as Key Expert at an EU project providing foreign policy expertise to the European Parliament. In 2025, Nimrod served as a consultant supporting the development of the Union for the Mediterranean's new Vision Statement.
He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies and Political Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow (Fulbright program) at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Nimrod is a past recipient of the Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East and the Centennial Medal of the Institute of International Education.
Formerly, he was a Senior Fellow for Israeli Affairs at the US-based Middle East Institute, a Teaching Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rothberg International School, a Faculty Affiliate at Syracuse University’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), and the Executive Director of the Young Israeli Forum for Cooperation.
Nimrod has designed and led multiple channels of unofficial diplomacy relating to Israel and its Arab & Muslim neighbors. He is a frequent commentator on Israeli and regional affairs for international media outlets, and has authored and edited numerous publications on Israeli foreign policy and domestic politics, Israel-Arab relations, the Middle East peace process, Mediterranean diplomacy, and Turkey’s foreign policy.
