Background
Dan Gillerman was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dan Gillerman
Brighton, England
Whittingehame College
Tel Aviv, Israeli
Tel Aviv University
Jerusalem, Israel
Hebrew University
Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Gillerman was educated at Whittinghame College, a Jewish boarding school in Brighton, England, and studied politics, economics and law at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Gillerman was appointed Israel’s 13th representative to the United Nations in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003.
He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003, serving through 2008.
On June 14, 2005, he was elected to the position of Vice-President of the 60th United Nations General Assembly.
On April 24, 2008, Gillerman referred to former United States President Jimmy Carter as a bigot for his meeting in Syria with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
Gillerman served as the Chief Executive Officer of several Israeli companies, Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, member of the board of the First International Bank of Israel and Director of Bank Leumi and the Bank of Israel. He also served on the Prime Minister"s National Economic and Social Council, the President"s Committee of the Coordinating Council of Israel"s Economic Organizations, as Chairman of the Israel-British Business Council, and as member of the executive board of the International Chamber of Commerce of the World Business Organization.
He and his wife Janice have two children, Keren and David, and three grandchildren.