Alan Shatter is a former Irish Minister for Justice, Equality & Defence, a former chairperson of the Irish Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee and a former chair and member of the EU’s Council of Justice & Home Affairs Ministers & Council of Defence Ministers. He is currently a Board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, a member of Ireland Israel Alliance and chair of Magen David Adom Ireland. He is also a retired solicitor advocate, author of academic legal works, novels, biographies and an occasional lecturer, broadcaster and writer on legal issues and contemporary Irish domestic and international politics. The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, the Jerusalem Post and various Irish newspapers are included amongst the publications for which he has written.
