Col. (Res.) Attorney Pnina Sharvit Baruch is the Chairwoman of the Executive Committee of the Deborah Forum - Women in Foreign Policy and National Security and one of the founders of the forum.
She is the Director of Guidance and Integration and a board member at the Institute for National Security Studies, and has served as a senior researcher at this institute since 2012.
Retired from the IDF in 2009 after twenty years of service in the International Law Department of the Military Attorney's Office, including five years as head of the department. In her role, she served as a senior legal advisor and was responsible for providing legal advice in the fields of international law and administrative law to senior figures in the IDF and the government on issues related to, among other things, the law of war, the law of occupation, the law of the sea, combating terrorism, security agreements, border determination, diplomatic contacts and international procedures. She was the commander of the operational legal advice system for IDF commanders. She participated as a legal advisor in the Israeli delegations for negotiations with the Palestinians, starting from the beginning of the contacts with them, as well as in the Israeli delegation for negotiations with Syria.
After her retirement, she served as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, where she taught courses on international law and the Israeli-Arab conflict. She also taught a course on the laws of war at the IDF National Security College.
Pnina is Vice President of the International Jewish Lawyers' Association; a member of the NATO Advisory Committee on Women, Peace and Security; and a member of the Women Mediators Network in the Mediterranean Region.
Graduated with a BA and MA in Law, both with honors, from Tel Aviv University.