Jon Benjamin

In June 2015 he became chairman of the Israel Guide Dog Centre - UK Friends, a registered charity in England supporting the only accredited breeding and training facilities for guide dogs in Israel. In September 2017 he was appointed a trustee of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre, a charity established to preserve the legacy of the renowned historian through history based education.

Since leaving the Board of Deputies he has offered consultancy services to not-for-profit organisations through his consultancy, MJB Consulting and served as Chief Operating Officer at World ORT between January 2014 and December 2015. He is a member of the consultancy advisory panel of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and served on charity sector working groups on volunteering and trustee best practice.

He sat on the Charity Commission's Faiths Advisory Council and has acted as a 'critical friend' to the commission, providing advice on the Public Benefit Guidelines published in 2008. He chaired the Chief Executives' Forum for Jewish Charities and is a member of the Policy Research Advisory Group of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and a board member of the World Council of Jewish Communal Service.

He moved into communal service in 1996, working for several years for educational and cultural charities before joining the Board of Deputies in January 2005.

Marc Jonathan Benjamin (born 31 October 1964) is a qualified lawyer and has held various leadership positions in NGOs and Jewish communal organisations, including as Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from January 2005 to May 2013 and Chief Operating Officer of World ORT from January 2014 to December 2015.