Eli Cohen Kagan

Eli Cohen Kagan is an Israeli engineer and attorney. A member of Israel's engineers community and “an active international figure in the certification Regulatory and standardization fields”. Works as VP (Certification) Standards Institute of Israel (SII-QCD), serves as the Vice President of IQnet Association ( The International Network of Certification Bodies), Israel's representative for ISO/CASCO, and IQNet's representative for International Accreditation Forum (IAF).

Biography

Kagan was born in a Labor Camp in Siberia (Russia). His parents were exiled to Siberia from Latvia. His family returned to Latvia, after 17 years of exile and hard labour and invested great efforts to make "Aliyah", and to achieve their dream and come to Israel. Cohen-Kagan Has a master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Riga Technical University, an MBA in Business Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Law Degree from the Ono Academic College, admitted to practice law in Israel. Eli Cohen-Kagan is married with 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren.

Career

In the early 80's, Kagan was elected to lead the Professional Engineers Trade Union (50,000 members), and was amongst the initiators of the fundamental changes within Israel's trade unions. In the late 80's, and during the first Gulf War, served as a Minister for Labour of Affairs (Labour attaché for Northern America) at the Israel Embassy, Washington DC. During the 90's, Cohen-Kagan was active in the midst of transition of Israel Railways from the State to Ports & Railways Authority, serving as VP for HR. In addition to his public service, Eli was the owner of a private consulting firm, and a boutique Law Office, specializing in Administrative Law, and Election Campaigns, Dispute Resolutions and arbitration. As of 2009, Head of SII-QCD, the leading Certification Body (CB) in Israel, providing a wide range of certification, verification and assessment services. As from 2011, Kagan serves as VP of IQnet – International

Association (35 countries) of Certification Bodies.

Other Professional Activities

IQNet Vice President

ISO/CASCO Strategic Alliance and Regulatory Group (STAR) Committee member.

IQNet representative for the International Accreditation Forum (IAF)

ISO PC/278 Anti Bribery Committee member

ISO WG-42 (ISO 17011) Committee member