Leon Saltiel is Director of Diplomacy, Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO, and Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020), which won the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto in Greek (Alexandria 2018), English (Berghahn 2021) and French (Denoël 2023).
Leon was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University, where he earned a master’s degree in Foreign Service. He has received numerous fellowships from, among others, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, German Marshall Fund, Yad Vashem, and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He is a member of the Greek delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and will chair its Academic Working Group in 2025-2026.
Leon was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University, where he earned a master’s degree in Foreign Service. He has received numerous fellowships from, among others, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, German Marshall Fund, Yad Vashem, and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He is a member of the Greek delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and will chair its Academic Working Group in 2025-2026.
