B. Daniel Diker (Dan Diker), born in New York, serves as the Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), an umbrella group representing Jewish communities and organizations in nearly 100 countries around the world. Diker was elected on June 20, 2011 by the WJC Governing Board in Jerusalem,Israel.[1] Diker previously served as the WJC Director for Strategic Affairs, and as WJC Middle East adviser on policy and diplomacy. He succeeded Michael Schneider, who served as the organization's Secretary General since 2007. [2]
Diker is a respected foreign affairs analyst and Middle East expert. From 2006 to 2010, he served as Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, headed by Israel's former Ambassador to the United Nations, Dore Gold, where he was also Senior Foreign Policy Analyst since 2002. [3]
Diker also served as an Adjunct Fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington. [4]
Between 1984 until 1987 Diker worked on Wall Street, first as a marketing professional at Drexel Burnham Lambert, and then as an advisor to the co-chairman on investment banking at Shearson Lehman Brothers.
Diker often appears as a commentator and analyst on Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs on a variety of news networks, including CNN, BBC, ABC News, Fox News, and Al Jazeera news channels and as a Middle East Affairs commentator for Israel’s IBA English News. His articles have appeared in the New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, Makor Rishon, as well as the academic journals Middle East Quarterly and Azure. [5]