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Prof. Eytan Gilboa has served in many senior academic positions is Israel and the US. He has been Professor of International Communication, founder and first Head of both the School of Communication and the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a senior research associate at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, and since 2005, has been teaching public diplomacy at the University of Southern California (USC). He was Vice Chair of the Department of Political Studies, Director of the PhD program and founding Head of the Undergraduate Program in Political Science and Communication in English. At the Hebrew University, he initiated, planned established and directed the Laboratory for Behavioral Simulations. At the University of Southern California (USC), he helped to establish the Center on Public Diplomacy, and initiated and co-founded the Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy.    

He is a world-renowned expert on international communication, public diplomacy and US policy in the Middle East. He won several significant international awards, including the Best Article Award from the International Communication Association (2001), the ICOMM Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association (2023) and The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Association for International Studies (2024).

He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Hebrew University and received his MA and PhD degrees in Government from Harvard University. He taught at the Hebrew University and has been a visiting professor at several leading American and European universities including Harvard (Kennedy School of Government), UCLA (Dept. of Political Science), Georgetown (Dept. of Government and the School of Foreign Service), the American University in Washington DC (School of International Service), Tufts (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), the University of  Southern California (Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism), and the University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication). In Europe he was a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg (Institute for Political Research), the Vienna School of International Studies (the Diplomatic Academy), and the University of Mannheim (Institute for Media and Communication Studies).

Gilboa has significantly contributed to theory development and empirical research in several areas of international relations and international communication including conflict resolution, international negotiation, simulations and strategic games, the Arab Israeli Conflict, global news networks, the CNN Effect, media diplomacy, public diplomacy and formation and measurements of public opinion. He has published 15 books and monographs (8 in English and 7 in Hebrew) and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles. He has presented works in more than 150 scientific and professional conventions and symposia and delivered lectures in academic or professional forums in 35 countries around the world. His works have been published or translated into several languages. He has served on editorial boards of many journals and book series.

Gilboa's professional and public service record includes several significant appointments and contributions to defense, foreign affairs, public diplomacy, and higher education. He was Chair of the Israel Communication Association, Chair of the International Communication Section at the Israeli Association for International Studies, and Chair of the Selection Committee for the Israeli Prize in Communication. He has been very active in international scholarly associations, chair and member of several committees, particularly at the International Studies Association, the International Communication Association and the International Association for Conflict Management. He was a member and chair of Accreditation Committees at the Council on Higher Education, and Chair of the Communication Committee and the Political Science and International Relations Committee at the National Science Foundation. He also was a Member of the Committee on Higher Education of the City of Jerusalem. 

He was the Chair of the Israeli Center of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS), and Chair of the Israeli Students' Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN). He was a "Scholar-in-Residence" at several Jewish communities including New England, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Australia, and New Zealand. He was also a keynote speaker at events organized by Councils of Foreign Affairs and Committees for International Relations in several American cities.

Gilboa was a liaison officer for academic and cultural affairs at the Israeli Consulate in Boston, and Chair of the Foreign Service Selection Committee. He taught international relations and conducted behavioral simulations at the Department of Training at the Foreign Ministry. He was founding Chair of the Israel Public Diplomacy Forum. He was also adviser to the team that reestablished the National Defense College after the Yom Kippur War, designed the section on international relations and was the section's first Academic Director. He was an adviser to several ministries, offices and agencies including the Prime Minister Office, the Ministry of Foreign affairs, the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense, and the Government Press Office. He served as consultant to ministries of foreign affairs and other agencies in several countries around the world.  

Gilboa has been very active in journalism. He has been editor, producer and moderator of defense and foreign affairs programs at the IDF Radio, and has served as commentator on television and radio channels. He contributes numerous op-ed articles to leading newspapers and news websites in Israel including the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ha'aretz, Ma'ariv, Yediot Aharonot, Israel Hayom, as well as Ynet and Walla - all news websites. He has appeared on CNN International, BBC World News, Fox News, ABC News Nightline, PBS`s Lehrer News Hour, Al-Jazeera (Arabic and English), Al-Arabia, TRT (Turkey), CCTV, (China), RT, (Russia), ITN, (UK), ARD, ZDF, Deutsche Welle (Germany), RAI (Italy), NRK, (Norway), France 24 (France), Duna (Hungary), and CBC (Canada).

His articles and interviews with him have appeared in many leading newspapers around the world including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde (France), Politiken (Denmark), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zietung (Germany), La Stampa (Italy), La Razon (Spain), The Australian and The Age (Australia), Globo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun (Japan).

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