Biography
A Scholar at the Crossroads of Empires
Dr. Jalal Nali (PhD, Business Management) is a European national and one of the most distinctive voices at the intersection of public diplomacy, North African political economy, and digital rights. Born in 1975 at the gateway where Africa, Europe, and the Arab world have traded, negotiated, and reimagined one another for a thousand years, that geography — and the dual heritage it instilled — has shaped every page of his work. 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 across Europe and North Africa. A 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 2014, the Crans Montana Forum recognised him with its Leader of Tomorrow award — a distinction reserved for emerging figures of institutional consequence.
Dr. 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 four 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, figshare, and Academia.edu, with a growing body of work read in scholarly and diplomatic circles worldwide.
