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Ron Pundak - The Ambassadors

CEO, The Peres Center for Peace

Dr. Ron Pundak has served as the director general of the Peres Center for Peace since 2001. He played a decisive role in creating the secret track of the unofficial Oslo negotiations at the beginning of 1993. Under the guidance of former Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and his Deputy Dr. Yossi Beilin, and subsequently, under the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Dr. Pundak served as a member of the official Israeli negotiating team in the later stage of the Oslo Process.

As director general of the Peres Center, Dr. Pundak is a member of the Aix Group's Steering Committee, and also serves as the co-chairperson of the Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum. Furthermore, he is a member of the Academic as well as Executive Board of the Tel Aviv University Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation, which was jointly established by the Peres Center and Tel Aviv University.

Prior to joining the Peres Center for Peace, Dr. Pundak worked in the fields of intelligence, army, and government, and from 1991-1992, he worked as a journalist at Israeli newspaper "Ha'aretz".  He also served as executive director of the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), an Israeli think-tank dealing with various political and economic issues related to the Arab-Israeli peace process.

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