Galit Baram was appointed to the position of Counselor for Public and Academic Affairs at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C. in August 2009.

Counselor Baram joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. From 2006 to 2009 she was Counselor for Economic and Commercial Affairs in Cairo. From 1998 to 2003 she was First Secretary for Political Affairs in Moscow, where she covered Russian foreign policy.

During her time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem she was the Assistant to the Senior Deputy Director General for North America, and Assistant to the Director General. She also was Deputy Director of the Eurasia Department, covering Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan.

Counselor Baram holds a bachelor’s degree in Near East Archeology and English Literature from Tel Aviv University, and a Masters degree in American Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She is married to a fellow Israeli diplomat and has two children.