Ron Pundak (Hebrew: רון פונדק; 14 May 1955 – 11 April 2014) was an Israeli historian and journalist.

He played an important role in starting the Oslo peace process in 1993, and was part of the core group behind the Geneva Initiative.

[3] Together with fellow academic Yair Hirschfeld, he founded an NGO called the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), through which they established relationships with Palestinian leaders, which eventually led to the Oslo peace process.

In 2001, Pundak became director general of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv-Yafo, a position he held until 2011.

[1][4] He was the subject of the article written by Yael Patir Remembering Ron Pundak, which was published in the Israeli-Palestinian Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture in 2014.