Dan Gillerman

Dan Gillerman was born in 1944 in Mandatory Palestine

Gillerman was born in Tel Aviv in 1944, during the British Mandate. He attended Whittinghame College, a Jewish boarding school in Brighton, England, where he met his future wife, Janice. He later studied politics, economics and law at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He was CEO of several Israeli companies in chemicals and food. He was active in the Free Center party and later joined the Democratic Movement for Change. From 1985 to 2002 he chaired the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, and he sat on the boards of the First International Bank of Israel, Bank Leumi and the Bank of Israel.

He was appointed ambassador to the UN in July 2002 and took up the post on January 1, 2003. In June 2005 he was elected a Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly for the Western European and Others Group. He served at the UN until 2008.

After leaving the UN he led the consulting firm Gillerman Global and co-founded an investment fund with Matthew Bronfman that later closed. In December 2009 he became chairman of the Markstone fund and later resigned after the fund lost much of its capital. He became an adviser to Blackstone in Israel and in 2021 chairman of Blackstone Israel, and in 2019 he became chairman of the medical cannabis company Pharmocann.