1 Ilan Alon
Prof. Alon has an MBA in International Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University, an MA in Economics from Kent State University and a PhD in Business Administration from the Department of Economics at Kent State University.
Prof. Alon is a full professor with an international reputation as well as diverse academic and professional experience. He is a leading and influential researcher in the fields of; Chinese economy, crypto economics (digital currencies) and international business and has published many research studies in respected forums in the fields of economics and business administration. His research resonates within and outside of the academic world with numerous citations in journals and academic literature.
Prof. Alon was visiting scholar in top universities worldwide, including, Harvard University, Georgetown University in the USA, Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and Jiaotong University in China. He is a contributor to many leading journals in the fields of economics and international business and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets. His last academic position was as a full professor at Ariel University.
Along with his impressive academic work, Prof. Alon has extensive experience in consulting. Over the years, Prof. Alon has served as a consultant to various government agencies, such as the United Nations and USAID, and multinational companies, such as Disney and illy, in matters relating to economic development. He is currently serving on a number of advisory boards for start up companies in Israel.
2 Armoni Adi
1 Patal Herzel
2 Richter Ganit
Dr. Richter’s areas of research interest include hedonic information systems from a managerial, educational, social, and business perspective. Among the main themes of her research are mechanisms of rewards and incentives for motivation, and how gamification can be used in novel contexts, such as interpreting complex legal documents.
Dr. Richter has won several prizes, best paper awards, and honors; including from the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, the University of Minneapolis, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
2 Cohen Avinoam
Avinoam Cohen is a lecturer at the Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management, Israel. His research studies interplays of law, institutions and social policy, particularly in the contexts of migration governance and regulation, welfare, and human rights litigation.
Avinoam holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law and LLB (cum laude) in Law and History from the Hebrew University. At the College of Management, he led the Concord International Law and Human Rights Clinic (2005 – 2020) and headed the Interdisciplinary Laureate Program of the College (2017 – 2021). He was an attorney at J. Weinroth & Co., Clerked for Hon. Mishael Cheshin at the Israeli Supreme Court, and was a dynamic group facilitator at the education department of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
Currently, Avinoam directs the excellence programs at the Faculty of Law and teaches and instructs a variety of courses, seminars and research workshops in the fields of Legal Methods and Research, Human Rights and Public International Law. In addition, he instructs the MA research colloquium of the MUSA program, and is a core faculty of the Global Migration and Policy MA program at TAU, teaching comparative migration and citizenship regimes.
1 Ellis Shmuel
Shmuel Ellis is a (full) professor of social psychology and organizational behavior at the College of Management Academic Studies.
He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1985. During the years 1988-2015 he was on the faculty of the Coller (formerly, Recanati) Graduate School of Management and for several years served as the Head of the Department of Management and the Academic Director of the Organizational Consulting Program. From 1990 to 1992 he was visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. During the years 2015-2017 he was the head of the Department of Psychology, College of Management Academic Studies and from 2016 to 2017 he was also the Vice President for Academic Affairs (Rector) of the College.
His main areas of interest are reflection interventions and learning from successes vs. failures, organizational genealogies, entrepreneurship, imprinting and knowledge transmission. Shmuel Ellis has published in top-tier journals such as Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Judgment and Decision Making and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
1 Muhammad Asali
Professor Muhammad Asali’s research and teaching interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, statistics, econometrics, and time series econometrics. Asali served as a Professor of Economics and the Head of Graduate Studies at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. He is also a research fellow at IZA, the institute of labor economics in Bonn, Germany. At SIPA of Columbia University he is the professor for the MPA in Economic Policy Management program’s Microeconomics.
Asali received his BA in Accounting and Economics and his MA in Economics, all with distinction, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2008.
Muhammad Asali previously held visiting professorships at Columbia University, at New York University, and at Union College. His research has appeared in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics Letters, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, and Defence and Peace Economics, among others.
Personal Web Page: https://sites.google.com/site/muhammadasali/
2 Balzam Adva
Dr. Adva Balzam is a lecturer and researcher in media, a psychologist and non-fictional TV creator.
2 Bitan Michal
Dr. Michal Bitan is a lecturer in the Computer Science department. She develops courses in statistics and probability relevant to data science.
Michal holds a BSc in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University, a MSc in Biostatistics and a PhD in Biostatistics both from Tel-Aviv University.
As part of her doctoral thesis, she developed models for planning effective studies using R software. Throughout her career, Dr. Bitan worked in the high-tech industry. Due to her love and passion for research and teaching, she has returned to academia as a lecturer and a researcher in the field of statistics and biostatistics since 2006. She has published articles in prestigious scientific magazines.
2 Daniels Shiri
Dr. Shiri Daniels is the Head of the Educational Counseling masters’ program at Colman – The College of Management. She is the National Director of Counseling at ERAN – Israel’s largest hotline for emotional first aid via the telephone and internet. Dr. Daniels is an expert in listening skills, emotional first aid, online counseling, short-term counseling and crisis intervention.
Dr. Daniels is a member of the National Council of Suicide Prevention and the National Council of PTSD – Ministry of Health. As a preparedness, response and resilience expert dealing with national emergencies at ITC (Israel Trauma Coalition), she is an active participant in delegations and psycho-social training teams around the world.
Dr. Daniels is the author of “The Power of Listening – Helping those close to you in times of emotional distress and crisis” (2015) and “Analog Pain in a Digital Age – Positive coping with separation and divorce” (2018), published in Israel by Matar Publishing House.
Dr. Daniels has a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa in the field of educational counseling, a Master’s degree in counseling, specializing in art therapy and bibliotherapy, and a Bachelor’s degree from Tel Aviv University in educational counseling, sociology and anthropology.
