1 Manos Ronny
Ronny Manos is a Professor at the College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel. She teaches a wide range of courses including investment theory and applications, international finance, microfinance, corporate finance and financial management. Her PhD thesis was on the topic of corporate finance in emerging markets and her current research interest is in the area of gender and microfinance.
2 Baum Ido
Dr. Ido Baum is an associate professor (senior lecturer) at the Haim Striks School of Law, where he served as Vice Dean (2015-2019) and currently serves as Head of the Heth Center for the Research of Competition and Regulation and as the Director of the Excellence Program.
He holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from Tel-Aviv University (1997); an LL.M. and Master’s degree from the European Master in Law and Economics Program cum laude (2003) and a Iuris Doctor (German Doctor of Laws) from the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University, Germany summa cum laude (2007).
Dr. Baum is frequently invited to teach and conduct research abroad. He recently taught at the Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Legal Studies, at the Warsaw School of Economics and at Hamburg University. He also regularly teaches a seminar on Business Law at the international business law program at Tel Aviv University.
Dr. Baum’s prolific career included serving as the Spokesperson of the Israeli Ministry of Justice (1999-2001), as the assistant to the Israeli Attorney General (2001-2002) and as a lawyer for the Claims Resolution Tribunal in Zurich Switzerland (2006-2008). Before his academic career, he was a senior editor and journalist in the most influential newspaper in Israel, Haaretz, and in the leading commercial news corporation in the country.
Dr. Baum is the in-house legal commentator of the financial daily newspaper TheMarker, considered to be the most influential financial newspaper in Israel. He is by far the most published academic in his field in the popular media.
Dr. Baum is the author of numerous articles in Hebrew and in English in the field of corporate governance, securities regulation, procedural law and law and economics.
In 2019 Dr. Baum was selected by the Ministry of Justice to lead a team of researchers tasked with a long term project of evaluating the reform of personal and corporate bankruptcy law in Israel.
Research Interests and teaching
Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Securities Regulation, Corporate Bankruptcy, Civil Procedure, Economic Analysis of Law.
1 Ben-Naftali Orna
Professor Orna Ben-Naftali is a full professor and a member of the Haim Striks Faculty of Law, where she served as Dean (2008-2011) and where she holds the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights. She served as Rector of the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN) (2019-2021). She holds an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University (1982), an MA (History) from Harvard University (1986) and an M.A.L.D. (1985) and a Ph.D (1990) from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Professor Ben-Naftali taught at Brandeis University, was the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.
She worked at the Department of Peacekeeping Operation, the United Nations.
Prof. Ben-Naftali served on the editorial board of the European Journal of International Law, and on the advisory board of editors of Humanity and of the Max Planck Trialogue on the Laws of War and Peace.
She served as a board member of B’tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories; Chairwoman of the board of Yesh-Din – Volunteers for Human Rights and Chairwoman of the Sapir Prize in Literature Committee.
She is the co-author of four books; numerous articles and book chapters in the field of international law. Her most recent book (co-authored with Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo) is The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press 2018) which won the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merits (2019). Her Research Interests and teaching include International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture.