Mr. Ohad Cohen - Commercial Attache

Mr. Ohad Cohen currently serves as the Commercial Attach? at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C.

Mr. . Cohen was born in Haifa in 1971. After serving in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1989 to 1993, Mr. Cohen studied at Haifa University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration.

After completing his MBA, Mr. Cohen worked as an economist in ZIM Lines, one of the largest worldwide maritime containers carriers.

In 1997 Mr. Cohen joined the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor (MOITAL) where he worked in their Middle East Department. His main responsibility was to serve as the coordinator of the Israeli members of the joint Israeli-Jordanian-American Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) Committee.

Mr. Cohen was appointed in 1998 as the Acting Commercial Attach in Amman, Jordan, a position he held until 1999.

From 1999 until September 2000, Mr. Cohen worked as Deputy Director of the International Agreements Division, where he dealt mainly with the commercial relationships with the European Union.

In addition, Mr. Cohen was a member of the Industrial Cooperation Committee at the European Barcelona process from 1998 until 2000. The Committee's objective was to establish commercial infrastructure for economic cooperation between counties in the European Union and countries in the Middle East and North Africa

From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Cohen served as the Commercial Attach of Israel to Sweden, Finland and Norway (based in Stockholm). During that period, Mr. Cohen was in charge of promoting the trade between Israel and the Nordic countries.

After returning from Stockholm, Mr. Cohen headed the Commercial Attach Cadets Course, where he was in charge of training the new generation of the commercial foreign service of the State of Israel.

In 2005 Mr. Cohen was appointed the Director of the Southern European Department in Israel's Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.

Mr. Cohen has been the Commercial Attach at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C. since August of 2007.

Mr. Cohen is married to his wife, Monika and is the proud father of his children, Eitan, Neta and Doron. .