Ilana Victorya Seid

The Permanent Representative of Palau to the United Nations, Ms. Ilana V. Seid, presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 16 September 2021. She is serving concurrently as a non-resident Ambassador of Palau to Israel. Before herappointment, Ambassador Seid was the founder and CEO of the online e-commerce company Sunday Morning. Prior to launching Sunday Morning, Ambassador Seid worked as a software engineer and technology project manager in New York, and as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and New York. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in the United States.