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Lior Herman
Areas of expertise
- International trade
- Services
- European Neighbourhood Policy and EU-Mediterranean relations
- WTO
- Economic diplomacy
Lior Herman is a Fellow at ECIPE. He is a visiting lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2005, where he teaches European Political Economy and EU-Israel relations. He is a member of the boards of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration and of the Academic Board of the Munich European Forum, a non-for-profit society researching and teaching on a multitude of international and European issues. He is also a Fellow of the Forum for Socio-Economic Justice at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.
Lior Herman has published in academic journals on a range of issues including international trade, services, EU – Mediterranean relations, regional cooperation and international money laundering. He has also consulted for both governments and international organisations.
Between 2001 and 2005, Lior Herman was a senior government official at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where he held the position of a Head of Department for Insurance Agencies and Agents at the Capital Markets Division, as well as Director for International Organisations and European Union at the International Division. In his position at the International Division he was extensively involved in policy making and international negotiations with regard to Israel’s economic relations with organisations such as the WTO and the OECD. He has been a non-resident member of Israel’s delegation to the WTO, with a particular focus on GATS negotiations, and had a leading role in negotiating Israel’s economic and trade chapter in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
Lior is now completing his Ph.D. on international trade in services at the London School of Economics and Political Science.