Benjamin David Soussan was born in 1943 in Fès, Morocco. He is a founding member of the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference (ORD) and was the regional rabbi of the Israelite Religious Community of Baden (IRG Baden) in Germany until June 30, 2012. Benjamin Soussan comes from a Sephardic family in Morocco and later lived in Paris. Since the 1980s he has lived in Germany.