Bernard Avishai

Visiting Professor of Government, is Adjunct Professor of Business at the Hebrew University, and formerly taught at MIT and Duke. A Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of 'The Tragedy of Zionism,’ 'A New Israel,' 'The Hebrew Republic,' and 'Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.' He contributes regularly on political economy and Israeli affairs to the New Yorker; and has written dozens of articles for Harper's, The New York Review, The Nation and New York Times Magazine. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG.