John Marks

John Marks is President and Founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organisation with offices in 30 countries. He is a best-selling, award-winning author. He also heads Common Ground Productions. He wrote and produced The Shape of the Future, a four-part TV documentary series that was simulcast on Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab satellite TV, and he executive produced the Nashe Maalo series (Macedonia); Africa: Search for Common Ground (South Africa); The Station (Nigeria and Egypt); and numerous other TV programmes and series. John is a Skoll Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. He was formerly a US Foreign Service Officer and Executive Assistant to the late US Senator Clifford Case. A graduate of Cornell University, he was a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.