Jared Meek is an accomplished legal professional, negotiation expert, and conflict transformation specialist with over 20 years of experience. He has impressively advised businesses, governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations in multi-stakeholder engagements, participatory dialogue processes, and organizational development through leadership maturity. Jared has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the European Graduate School, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law, and a diploma from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. He has also studied at Georgetown University and Colgate University. As a seasoned transactional lawyer and general counsel, Jared draws on a designer's toolbox to conceive, structure, plan, negotiate, and realize deals that serve individual and collective interests within an ecosystem of stakeholders.

Jared Meek is the CEO and founder of iDeal Counsel APLC and has served as a lecturer in law in prestigious universities such as Stanford Law School, Berkeley Law, and the University of California Hastings College of the Law. He has also worked with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a mediation and dialogue facilitation expert roster and has trained on intermodal arts-based research and conflict transformation. Jared's expertise lies in rule of law, human rights, social justice, innovation, economic development, finance, multi-sector initiatives, technology, environment, education, conflict prevention & resolution, ethics, and governance.