Eival Gilady
Honorary President
Years in office 2008-2012
Brigadier General (Res.) Eival Gilady is the Chairman and the co-founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce (IPCC). The IPCC was established to promote trade and commerce between Israelis and Palestinians, to create business opportunities and to improve the economic relations between the two peoples.
Gilady is also the CEO of the Portland Trust in Israel, a British foundation established to foster peace and stability in the Middle East through the use of bespoke economic tools and mobilization of international resources.
He is also the Chairman of the Koret Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) , which uses philanthropy to stimulate private sector economic expansion, and he is also the Chairman of the Western Galilee College , providing higher academic education in Israel’s periphery.
Gilady is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia in Tel Aviv.
Gilady earned his Bachelor’s and three Master’s degrees from Haifa University, National Defense University and George Washington University, in the areas of Resources Management, Policy Analysis, National Security Strategy, and Public Finance. From 1999 to 2001 he was assigned as a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
