Dan Ashbel

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Dan Ashbel (born 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is currently the Israeli ambassador to Austria, based in Vienna. He also acts as Israel's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna.

[edit] Biography

Dan Ashbel was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. He studied Geography and English Literature at Haifa University. At a later stage he completed his Master in Political Science with a focus on the Middle East.

Dan Ashbel is married to Zehava and they have three sons.

[edit] Professional career

From 1973 to 1975 He worked as a teacher at the Kfar Hanoar Hadati, High School in Kfar Hassidim near Haifa. In 1975, following graduation he joined Israel's diplomatic Service, foreign ministry, and in 1978 became press and cultural attache in Bonn, Germany. This post ended in 1983 and between 1986 and 1989 he was embassy counsellor at the Israeli embassy in Austria. In 1989 he took up a three year post as press attache at the Israeli embassy of Great Britain in London.

From 1994 to 1996 he worked at Israel's college for National Security. This was followed by work in the office of the Israeli consul general in Philadelphia between 1997 and 2000. Ashbel then became superintendent of the department of European multilateral institutions as well as coordinator for Euro-Mediterranean partnership (Euromed) in the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Furthermore he was head of the director's office for the institute of political science, deputy press spokesman, responsible for the Israeli cooperation programme for Central Asian countries and director of the education department and Europe II department.

In March 2005 Ashbel was given the role of Israeli ambassador to Austria, meaning he is now based Vienna. This post includes the roles of being Israel's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna.