Gerhard Conrad (born 1954) is an agent of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, and one its foremost experts on the Arab world. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was bureau chief of the BND's Damascus office from 1998 to 2002. He holds a doctorate of Islamic studies. His wife also works as a BND agent. In 2011, he coordinated the negotiations between Israel and Hamas resulting in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange involving 1,027 Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli prisoner Gilad Shalit.