Nadav Tamir is currently director of international policy and government affairs at Peres & Associates Global Advisory LTD and Advisor for International and Governmental Relations at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation. Nadav also serves currently as the chairperson of the Wexner – Israel Alumni Association. Nadav served as the Senior Policy Adviser to the President of Israel during the last 3 years of the presidency of Shimon Peres. Nadav returned to Israel in 2010 after serving as the Consul General of Israel to New England at the Consulate General of Israel in Boston for four years. He then served at the Policy Planning unit of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs until July, 2011 when he joined the President's Office. Nadav had the privilege to serve as a policy assistant under 3 Foreign Ministers - Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, and David Levy. In 2001, Nadav was granted the position of Advisor to the Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. In 2003, Nadav was chosen as a Wexner Israel Fellow and earned his Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Ministry, Nadav served as a security officer at the Residence of the President of the State of Israel, while simultaneously earning his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Nadav was born and raised on Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel. He began his career in public service in 1980 in the IDF, where he eventually served as a company commander and retired with the rank of Major.