Navigate the meetingBoard Director, Chair of the Advisory Board , Ukrainian Jewish Encounter
Berel RODAL is one of the founders of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), where he currently serves as the Chair on the Advisory Board. He provides strategic advice and related services to select clients in both the private and public sectors. His professional experience as a senior official in the Government of Canada for twenty years included policy planning and executive responsibilities in the national unity, foreign affairs, international trade, defense, security, and economic domains. He was a member of Canada’s team negotiating the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, a precursor of NAFTA. He writes and lectures on nationalism and political identity, the state and governance issues, and international political and security affairs. He has served for a decade as the Vice Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, based in Washington, DC, and is a founder of the North American Forum, which convenes select political, official, business and society leaders from the United States, Canada and Mexico to advance North American security, resilience, and prosperity. He was awarded the Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002. He holds degrees from McGill and Oxford Universities.
