Dr. Oleg Ivanov
Executive Director,
StandWithUs Northern California

Oleg Ivanov was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and grew up in San Francisco, where he currently resides. Before becoming the Executive Director of StandWithUs Northern California, he worked on Jewish and pro-Israel advocacy at the San Francisco office of the American Jewish Committee, the Consulate of Israel in Miami, the World Jewish Congress, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Oleg earned his PhD at UCLA, where his research focused on the creation of Soviet antizionism and its international dissemination. He serves on the San Francisco District Attorney’s Jewish Community Advisory Board and was honored to receive the 2024 Swami Vivekananda Award for Advancing Pluralism from the Hindu American Foundation.