Ivo Šilhavý

Head of the Representative Office of the Czech Republic in Ramallah, former Ambassador-at-Large for migration issues, former advisor to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for bilateral relations and former Director of the Middle East Department of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the past, he served as Executive Director of Greenpeace Czechoslovakia (1991-1995) and Foreign Policy Advisor to President Václav Havel (1996–2003). He worked at the Czech Embassy in London (1998–1999), and from 2000–2001, he acted as an expert for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.