Dr. Zvika Afik serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Business at the College of Management Academic Studies. Before joining the College of Management Academic Studies, Zvika headed the Department of Management at Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, and earlier was a tenured Senior Lecturer of Finance at Ben-Gurion University (BGU). Since 2004, Zvika has taught a variety of finance courses, primarily in MBA programs at Tel Aviv University, BGU, and other institutions in Israel and abroad. His courses mainly include Options and Futures, Financial Engineering, Risk Management, and Investment Committee courses, as well as introductory courses in finance, corporate finance, and financial markets.

Prior to his time at BGU, Zvika gained diverse experience in the technology industry, primarily in electro-optics and software. His roles included business management (VP Marketing, Managing Director, and CEO of startup companies, as well as middle management positions in large firms); business development, team building, and leadership in Israel and North America; and technology project management, system engineering, hands-on engineering, and consulting.

Zvika has published more than two dozen academic papers in refereed journals in finance and management, often in collaboration with researchers from various universities in Israel and abroad. He continues his research activities, including the supervision of master and doctoral students at BGU and HIT. His current research interests include credit risk, behavioral finance, financial derivatives, risk management, and hedging.

Zvika holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1979) and Tel Aviv University (1989), respectively, an MBA (Executive Program) from Concordia University in Montreal (1996), and a PhD in Finance from Tel Aviv University (2009).