2024 Recipient: Alan H. Gill
Alan H. Gill, CEO of JDC, is honored with the 2024 Bernard Reisman Professional Excellence Award.
Alan also served as a member of JDC’s emergency rescue and relief team during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, providing urgently needed assistance to Jews trapped behind the Russian lines. In 2015, he oversaw JDC’s rescue operation of 130 Jews trapped in the war zone in eastern Ukraine and who were brought to safety in the western part of the country.
During his tenure as JDC’s founding executive director of international development (1993-2012), JDC’s annual philanthropic revenue increased ten-fold bringing the annual budget to over $350 million. His transformative work became the subject of research and a book published in 2010 by Brandeis University, "Mission, Meaning, and Money".
About Alan H. Gill
Before moving to Israel, Alan served as CEO of the Jewish Federation of Columbus (1984-1993). He holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University and a master's degree from The Ohio State University where he was elected to its College of Social Work’s Hall of Fame in 2014 for outstanding career achievement. Alan is a past recipient of JPRO’s Mandelkorn Distinguished Service Award for an Exemplary Career in Service of the Jewish People.
In addition to serving as CEO Emeritus of JDC, Alan is advisor-in-residence with the Mandel Institute for Executive Leadership in North America and serves as senior advisor at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values. He sits on the Boards of Directors of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Alan, his wife Rhona, and their children and grandchildren live in Tel Aviv.