Samuel Schidem (PhD) was recently appointed as Executive Director in Germany and brings to the role deep experience in peacebuilding.
Samuel is a leading educator on minority rights in Germany and his career has focused on Jewish-Muslim relations, peace education and academic exchanges.
In 2016 Samuel founded a Humanitarian Aid Organization that was honoured with the Prize of the German Chancellor in 2018.
He lectures on educational approaches to remembrance culture in Germany and Israel, religious radicalization, new forms of nationalism as well as racism, Islamophobia and Antisemitism.