Gil Murciano is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the SWP and had recently served as a Fox Fellow at Yale University. In addition, Gil serves as a guest lecturer specializing on Middle-Eastern international politics at the Hertie School of Governance. During the last year, Gil has also been developing a new policy initiative that aims to turn members of the ME diaspora in Germany into foreign policy advisers. The initiative was recently chosen for the Hertie Stiftung’s Innovation Center for Advanced Practitioners.

Gil has served for more than a decade in different capacities within the Israeli national security and foreign affairs community. He worked as a senior foreign policy analyst at the Tel Aviv-based Reut Institute for Strategic Thinking (currently known as the Reut Group), and as an analyst at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. Gil is also a contributing member to the Israeli-Arab King's College-based Atkin Fellowship Network.