About the Author

Jerry M. Rosenberg, a 2006 Marshall Foundation Fellow, is Founder and Director of the Center for Middle East Business Studies, Professor of International Business at the Rutgers Business School, and member of the  faculty of the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA.  He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada), Middlesex Polytechnic University (England), Ben-Gurion University (Israel), University of Iceland (Iceland), John Cabot University (Italy), Ecole Superieure Commerce Marseille-Provence (France), Bifrost Business School (Iceland), Maastricht School of Management (The Netherlands), University of Aberdeen (Scotland), and has lectured at the University of Pavia (Italy), the University of Pisa (Italy), the London School of Economic and Political Sciences (England), Hebrew University (Israel), and Al-Akawan University (Morocco).

He received his B.S. degree from The City College of New York, an M.A. from Ohio State University, Certificate from the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Metiers (National Institute of Science, Technology and Management in Paris), and Ph.D. from New York University.

As a Fulbright-French Government scholarship winner, at the age of 23, he was introduced to the world of international affairs while living in Paris.

He has had 33 books published, including nine subsequent new editions. Many of these works have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Russian, Czech/Slovak, Chinese, and Spanish.

An "expert" speaker at the four Middle East/North Africa Economic Summits (Casablanca, Amman, Cairo, and Doha), he has drawn from 20 years of experience in writing and researching on regional economic integration dealing with the European Union, NAFTA and Latin-American Trade. He has made numerous trips to North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia to collect pertinent data and to interview many of their leaders.

Dr. Rosenberg first presented a model for a potential community of regional nations at the Casablanca- 1994 and October 1995 Amman Middle East/North Africa Economic Summits. The Executive Secretariat of the Middle East/North Africa Summits commissioned Rosenberg's The Peace Dividend: Creating a Middle East/North Africa Community; it was printed and distributed at the Cairo Economic Conference in 1996. His Encyclopedia of the Middle East Peace Process and the Middle East/ North Africa Economic Community was completed in time for the Doha, Qatar, opening plenary in November 1997.  Arafat's Palestinian State and JIPTA: The Best Hope for Lasting Peace in the Middle East, was published in 1999, and Nation-Building: A Middle East Program in 2003. He has presented his model for regional economic integration in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia to numerous government and private-sector organizations, including briefings at the U.S. State Department and The World Bank.

In February 2006, he was one of several specialists invited by the U.S. Department of State and the Marshall Foundation to discuss "Lessons of the Marshall Plan for Middle East Conflict."

Jerry M. Rosenberg lives in New York City. Married to Ellen Y. Rosenberg for 46 years, he is the father of two married daughters, Lauren and Liz, and of sons-in-law Bob and Jon, and is grandfather to Bess, Ella, Celia, and Rita.

"Ultimately, peace in the Middle East can only exist with sovereignty for the Palestinians."