Gedaliah Afterman

Dr. Gedaliah Afterman is head of the Asia policy program at the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), Israel.  He previously served as an International Strategic Policy Specialist at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) focused on Asian regional security issues and as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, where he worked on issues related to China’s foreign policy, including the Middle East. He was also a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Peace Research (PRIO) in Oslo; and Fellow and China Program Lead at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) in Jerusalem. Gedaliah holds a BA in Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD from The University of Melbourne.