Areas of Expertise
Negotiations, Legal Issues, People to People, Environment
Biography
Eti Livni is a practicing attorney specializing in business and intellectual property law, and a mediator and strategic counselor. She lectures and participates in international conferences and Jewish organizations and is a board member of some of Israel’s largest industrial companies as well as governmental organizations. Ms. Livni is a member of the managing team of a Jewish nongovernmental
organization in peace, negotiations, women, and culture. While in the Knesset, Ms. Livni served as the deputy speaker and chair of the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women. She was a member of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, as well as a member of the Committee on the Status of Women, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of the Child. During the summer of 2005, Ms. Livni was instrumental in passing the legislation that mandates women’s inclusion in peace negotiations and foreign and security policymaking in Israel.
Following her career as a public servant, she has actively promoted a non-violent solution to the
Middle East conflict through many NGOs and as a member of the International Women’s Commission
for a just and sustainable Palestinian-Israeli peace. In 2004, Ms. Livni was a fellow at the Women in Public Policy Program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She holds a bachelor of laws degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (12.2010)
Contact:
Email: elivni7 at netvision.net.il
Phone: +972 9.9477123