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JANUARY 28TH
Special Guest Speaker
DR. RA'ANAN GISSIN

Dr. Raanan Gissin was the Senior Advisor to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In recent years he has become one of Israel’s leading spokesmen for the foreign press and the international community on security, strategic issues, terror, the Iranian and Radical Islamic threats, and the peace process.  His distinguished career with the Israeli Defense Forces began in 1979 with his position as a Strategic Analyst in the planning branch. At that time he was involved in the planning and implementation of the Sinai withdrawal and the Peace Process with Egypt.. During most of the 1980’s, which included the war of Lebanon and the “intifada”, he served as IDF Spokesman. Also in 1991, he serves as a special advisor to the Israeli Delegation at the Madrid Peace Conference and the subsequent negotiations with Arab and Palestinian delegations in Washington D.C.

After retiring from active duty in 1993, Dr, Gissin initiated and organized the Pension 2000 Conference in Israel with senior Israeli economic leaders and top fund executives and investors from the US.  In 1996, he was appointed spokesman of the newly created Ministry of National Infrastructures, headed by Ariel Sharon. From that year through Ariel Sharon’s rise as a Prime Minister to his sudden leaving in 2006, Dr. Gissin became Ariel Sharon’s closest advisor on public diplomacy, media and his official spokesman to the foreign press.  

Today, Dr. Gissin is one of the leaders of the Startcom project with an objective to develop an effective communication strategy for Israel as well as other embattled democracies facing the challenges of public diplomacy in the "global village".