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University of London.
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Ron Pundak
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He played an important role in starting the Oslo peace process in 1993, and was part of the core group behind the Geneva Initiative. Pundak was the executive director of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and co-chairman of its Palestinian-Israeli Peace non-governmental organization Forum. He was on the board of directors of the Aix Group.
Ron Pundak was born in Tel Aviv.
He was the son of Herbert Pundik, a Danish-Israeli journalist and author In 1991 Pundak graduated from the University of London with a Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern Political History.
After his return to Israel, he worked as a journalist at the Israeli daily newspaper Ha"aretz for one year. Together with fellow academic Yair Hirschfeld, he founded an non-governmental organization called the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), through which they established relationships with Palestinian leaders, which eventually led to the Oslo peace process.
In 2001 Pundak became director general of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a position he held until 2011.
Pundak died on 11 April 2014 after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.
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April 11, 2014 (aged 59)