One of four sons[4] of Sir Naim Dangoor[5] and Renée Dangoor, he spent his early life in Baghdad as part of Iraq's Jewish community, leaving with his parents and his brothers in the 1960s for the United Kingdom,[6] where he was educated at the Jewish boarding school Carmel College and at Imperial College London.
[2] He is Exilarch of The Exilarch's Foundation, a charity that has initiated, guided and supported many causes, mainly relating to education and health, including Westminster Academy,[7] Imperial College,[8] the UK Space Design Competition, The Open University, Age UK, The UK Israel Tech Hub, the Weizmann Institute of Science,[4] the Centre for Universal Monotheism,[9] Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Personalized Medicine at Bar Ilan University, Mishkenot Sha’ananim and Jewish Book Week.
A subsidiary of The Exilarch's Foundation is Dangoor Education, which has supported Jewish Renaissance magazine and dozens of charities in the UK and Israel.
He is a tireless activist for access to the Iraqi Jewish Archives[10] and tries to use his background and heritage[11] to ensure greater relations between Jews and Arabs.
[20] Dangoor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to the community in Greater London.