Gidi Grinstein

Gidi Grinstein is the President and founder of the Reut Institute [http://www.reut-institute.org] , a non-partisan non-profit innovative policy group designed to provide real-time long-term strategic decision-support to the Government of Israel.

In April 2007, Reut was described as Israel's Premier Strategy Group by Tom Friedman.

Before founding Reut, Gidi served as Secretary and Coordinator of the Israeli negotiation team on the Permanent Status Agreement between Israel and the PLO in the Office and later in the Bureau of Prime Minister Ehud Barak (1999-01).

In addition he was the founder of Yesodot Group for reforming Israeli Governance, a member of Kol-Dor Group for global Jewish Peoplehood, a member of "Israel 2025 – Scenarios for Future Developments" and was a founding member of a group that worked to realize the vision of the "Birthright Israel" program.

Gidi is a graduate of the Tel-Aviv University schools of Economics (1991) and Law (1999) and of Harvard University Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner-Israel Fellow (2002). He is a Captain (Res.) in the Israeli Navy.

His blog, Blogidi: A Link in the Chain can be found on http://www.blogidi.com/

More information on articles and speeches by Gidi can be found on http://www.gidigrinstein.com