Daniel Aschheim serves as Deputy Consul General at the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, based in Chicago. In 2020 he assumed the role as Consul for Public Diplomacy serving as spokesperson for the Consulate's nine-state Midwestern region. Previously, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, and worked as a director and advisor in the public and non-government organization sectors. A Jerusalem native, Aschheim holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, where he completed his MA in European Studies. As an undergraduate at the IDC Herzliya, he interned at the Knesset and at the British Embassy.