Biography
A Scholar at the Crossroads of Empires
Jalal Nali PhD (PhD, Business Management) is a European national and one of the most distinctive voices at the intersection of public diplomacy, political economy, and digital rights. He is the creator of Convergent Diplomacy®, an institutional framework integrating trade, military power, international aid, and digital engagement into a single coherent strategy for the multipolar age.
His career spans the private sector, semi-public organisations, and NGOs internationally. He is former President of the Centre of Peace and Development in the Mediterranean, he has served as a member of the Oxford Research Group on Terrorism, the Geneva Convention on Armed Violence and the Protection of Civilians, and the Anna Lindh Foundation. In 2013, the Crans Montana Forum recognised him with its Leader of Tomorrow award — a distinction reserved for emerging figures of institutional consequence.
Nali is also the founder of the Abraham Peace Gate initiative, a conflict-resolution platform drawing on Abrahamic traditions to reopen dialogue across the Mediterranean's most persistent fault lines. His three books span the full breadth of his intellectual interests: the reviving Salt Road commercial empires of North Africa, the novel science of Convergent Diplomacy, the algorithmic amplification of hate and exclusion online, and the architecture of public diplomacy in the global era. He writes and speaks fluently in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, and is published across Atalayar, Mundiario, figshare, Academia.edu, and many others with a growing body of work read in scholarly and diplomatic circles worldwide.
