Shimon Koffler Fogel is the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs was founded in 2004 as the principal advocacy, oversight and co-ordinating body for a number of Jewish Canadian organizations including the Canada-Israel Committee , the Canadian Jewish Congress/United Jewish Appeal and National Jewish...

 (CIJA). He assumed the position on January 1, 2011 as part of an impending restructuring of Jewish agencies in Canada that resulted in the Canadian Jewish Congress

Canadian Jewish Congress

The Canadian Jewish Congress was one of the main lobby groups for the Jewish community in the country, although it often competed with the more conservative B'nai Brith Canada in that regard. At its dissolution, the president of the CJC was Mark Freiman. Its past co-presidents were Sylvain Abitbol...

, the Canada-Israel Committee

Canada-Israel Committee

The Canada-Israel Committee was the official representative of the organized Canadian Jewish community on matters pertaining to Canada-Israel relations....

 and other bodies dissolving on July 1, 2011 with their functions being assumed by CIJA. Prior to becoming CEO of CIJA, Fogel was CEO of the Canada-Israel Committee from 1988 until 2010.

Education

Fogel is a graduate of Clark University

Clark University

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’s School of Government and International Relations where he was awarded a Jonas Clark Scholarship. He pursued graduate and doctoral studies at McGill University

McGill University

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Career

Fogel served as the first National Director of Community Services at Canadian Jewish Congress and as Executive Director of the Atlantic Jewish Council until 2008 when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Canada-Israel Committee

Canada-Israel Committee

The Canada-Israel Committee was the official representative of the organized Canadian Jewish community on matters pertaining to Canada-Israel relations....

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He is a registered consultant to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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, and has been a member of the Round-Table on Global Security under the Department of National Defence

Department of National Defence (Canada)

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. He has also been a seasonal lecturer at Queen’s University.