Board of Deputies

Michael Wegier has worked as a Jewish Educator, Strategic Planner and Chief Executive for Jewish organisations in the UK, Israel, and the United States. He has a degree in Jewish History from UCL and an MA in Contemporary Jewry from the Hebrew University. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Mandel Jerusalem Fellows for developing Educational Leadership.

Significant professional positions include Chief Executive of the Melitz Educational Centres in Israel and two terms at UJIA, one as Director of Programme and later as Chief Executive a position he held until 2019. For the last 2 years Michael has worked as a Strategic Consultant for several organizations including The Jewish Agency for Israel and World ORT.

Michael is an avid reader of Jewish, Israeli, and general literature as well as a keen cyclist and less keen runner. He is married to Daniela, originally from Chile and they have three grown-up(ish) children living between the UK and Israel.

Jake Berger deals with the following areas:

• Liaising with the Department for Education, Ofsted, Jewish Schools and other key stakeholders on issues of education policy
• Representing community interests in student affairs to universities, whilst working closely with the Union of Jewish Students
• Working with young professionals, youth movements and schools on engaging with young people in the Jewish community

Talia deals with the following areas:

• Israel policy issues
• Raising issues of concern at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Managing relations with diplomatic missions in London
• First point of contact for the Board of Deputies’ international partners including AJC, European Jewish Congress & World Jewish Congress
• Advocacy for post-Holocaust restitution, religious freedoms and counter-extremism on an international level

Sara Radivan covers the following areas

• Brings support and assistance to the regional Jewish communities, both large and small, during and following the pandemic.
• Offers professional help to the regional Jewish communities volunteer lay leadership and Deputies

Philip Rosenberg deals with the following areas:

• Policy formation and strategy
• Strategic relationships
• High level political advocacy
• Public affairs communications

Simon Round deals with the following areas:

• Press releases and statements
• Website management
• Social media communications
• The Community Briefing

Anthony Silkoff deals with the following areas:

• Relationships with stakeholders from other religious communities
• Social action programmes
• Representing the Jewish community at interfaith events
• Israel issues in other faith communities

• Judy Silkoff deals with the following areas:
• Responsible for the Board of Deputies’ support services including property, IT and HR
• Manages cloud-based systems in use at the Board of Deputies
• Ensures that the optimum equipment, systems, processes, and tools for the organisation are provided
• Assists the team in identifying and receiving training as required
• Oversees HR and recruitment
• Is the organisation’s designated lead for safeguarding

Daniel deals with the following areas:

• Political and Parliamentary Engagement.
• Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Jews
• Students and Youth
• Domestic Antisemitism and Extremism