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The Israeli Presidential Conference: Facing Tomorrow
Inspired by the vision of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Presidential Conference is a meeting place for exploring the developments shaping our future as well as the decisions and actions needed to be taken for paving the way toward a better tomorrow for Israel, the Jewish people and the entire world.
Facing Tomorrow 2012- the fourth annual conference under the auspices of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Shimon Peres, will take place in Jerusalem, June 19-21 2012.
The Conference will bring together the greatest thinkers - 200 experts, leaders and influential individuals from a spectrum of relevant fields - in support of our collective future. The discussions will take place within the framework of plenary sessions and a remarkably diverse array of panels, master classes and round table discussions – a total of approximately 40 sessions – dedicated to designing a better tomorrow.
Some of this year’s session topics include:
- The Arab Spring and Its Aftermath
- The 2012 US Elections and Beyond
- Europe – Between Integration and Separation
- Asia on the Rise – it’s Impact on the World, the State of Israel, and the Jewish People
- Tomorrow’s Religion
- Israel's Economy within the World Economic Crisis
- The World Economy – A plenary session moderated by Professor Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel
- The Challenge of Nurturing Young Jewish Leadership in Diaspora
- The Challenge in Jewish Existence in Diaspora
- Jewish Muslim dialogue
- Young Judaism – Is Something Else Being Created?
- Diaspora Jews – What do they Expect from the State of Israel?
- The Tent Protest - An Israeli Phenomenon and a Global Phenomenon
- The State of Israel vs. Its De-legitimization Agents
- Homo-Connecticus: Man Online and Social Networks as a Force Generating Tomorrow
- Learning from Mistakes on Our Journey toward Tomorrow?
- Philosophers Talk about Tomorrow
- Poverty and Wealth: How will this Gap Set the Course of Tomorrow
- The Chance for a Greener Tomorrow
- Brain Research and the Human Tomorrow
- Tomorrow’s Science
- Tomorrow’s Medicine
- Tomorrow’s Art
This year, discussions will be brought to life by the following extraordinary people (among others):
- H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres (Israel): President of the State of Israel
- H.E. Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu (Israel): Prime Minister of the State of Israel
- Rt. Hon. Tony Blair (UK): Former Prime Minister; Official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East; Founder, Tony Blair Faith Foundation
- Professor Stanley Fischer (Israel): Governor of the Bank of Israel
- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger (USA): Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State
- Ambassador Dennis Ross (USA): Former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama; Senior Director, Central Region at the National Security Council
- Mr. Abraham Foxman (USA): National Director, Anti-DefamationLeague; Recipient, French Légion d'honneur
- Professor Daniel Kahneman (USA/Israel): Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences
- Ms. Nancy Tellem (USA); Senior Advisor to the CEO, CBS Corp; President of CBS Network Television Entertainment
- H.E Mr. Andre D. Azoulay (Morocco): Counselor to His Majesty the King of Morocco
- Ms. Abby Joseph-Cohen (USA): President, Global Markets Institute; Partner and Senior US Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs; PresidentialCouncillor, Cornell University; Chair, Board of Trustees, Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America
- Mr. James Turley (USA): Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young; Member of the Business Roundtable; Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and Transatlantic Business Dialog
- Mr. Robert Wexler (USA): President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; former Congressman for Florida
- Mr. Julius Genachowski (USA): Federal Communications Commission Chairman
- Professor Richard Haass (USA): Diplomat; President, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Director, Policy Planning; U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan; US Special Envoy for Northern Ireland
- Professor Michael Sandel (USA): Political Philosopher; Professor, Harvard University; Author,Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
- Professor Anthony Cordesman (USA): Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC; Former National Security Assistant to Senator John McCain; Former Civilian Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Sir Martin Sorrell (UK): CEO, WPP Group; Chairman, Global Advisory Board, Centre for International Business and Management; Board of Directors, Associates of Harvard Business School, Board of the Indian School of Business; Governor, London Business School; Non-executive Director, Formula One
- Dr. Micah Goodman (Israel): Philosopher; ; Founder and Director, Mechinat Ein Prat; Senior research fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute
- Mr. Jacques Attali (France): Head, Commission for French Economic Growth
- Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (USA): Author; Contributing editor, Lilith, the academic journal Women and Judaism; Listed on the “36 Under 36” by the Jewish Week (2010); Senior Jewish Educator, Tufts University’s Hillel
- Sir. James Wolfensohn (USA/Australia): Founder, CEO and Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C; former President, The World Bank
- Ms. Maria van der Hoeven (The Netherlands) - Executive Director, International Energy Agency, former Minister of Economic Affairs, former politician, Christian Democratic Appeal party.
- Dr. Malcolm Hoenlein (USA): Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations;Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New York &Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry
- Mr. Ziad AbuZayyad (Palestinian Authority): Member, Palestinian Legislative Council; former Foreign Minister; former Minister of Culture
- Dr. Yossi Vardi (Israel): Head of the Technology Track, Israeli Presidential Conference Steering Committee
- Mr. Jeff Howe (USA): Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine; former Senior Editor, Inside.com; Writer, the Village Voice
- Mr. Elliot Abrams (USA): Senior Fellow, US Council on Foreign Relations; former Deputy Assistant to the President , Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy, Bush Administration
- Professor Mark Silk (USA): Director, Program on Public Values, Professor of Religion in Public Life, Founding Director, Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College; Founding Editor, Religion in the News.
- Mr. Pierre Besnainou (France): Chair, Israel Diaspora Paradigm Committee; President, Foundation of French Judaism; former President, European JewishCongress
- Lord Julian Hunt (UK): Emeritus Professor of Climate Modeling in the Dept. of Earth Sciences & Honorary Professor of Mathematics at UCL; Visiting Fellow of the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre in Cambridge University; Fellow of the Royal Society
- Professor Edward Luttwak (USA): Military Strategist and Historian; Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
- Professor Dominique Moisi (France): Founder and Senior Advisor, The French Institute for International Relations
- Mr. Richard Gerver (UK): Co-founder, The Curriculum Foundation; former Advisor on Education Policy to the Prime Minister. Author: Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today
- Mr. Leon Wieseltier (USA): Literary Editor, The New Republic
- Professor Lucian A. Bebchuck (USA): Director, Program on Corporate Governance; Professor, Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
- Professor Irving Abella (Canada): Professor, York University; former President, Canadian Jewish Congress; former Member, Order of Canada; former Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Professor Hagai Bergman (Israel): Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Institute for Medical Research Israel -Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; President, International Basal Ganglia Society; Simone and Bernard Guttman Chair in Brain Research, Founding Member, Inter-Disciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Mr. Yair Seroussi (Israel): Chairman, Board of Directors, Bank Hapoalim; Chairman, Poalim Capital Markets; former President, Israel Bank Association; Member, Board of Governors, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Dr. Nir Barzilai (Israel): Director of the Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Principal Investigator (NIH), Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging; The Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Aging Research; Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics
- Professor Guy Stroumsa (Israel): Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor, Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford
- Rabbi Daniel Smokler (USA): Senior Jewish Educator, The Bronfman Center & the Educational Director of Hillel International’s Senior Jewish Educator Project
- Professor Lawrence Brilliant (USA): physician, epidemiologist, technologist, author; Former director, Google's philanthropic arm; Technology patent holder; Currently oversees the Skoll Global Threats Fund
- Professor Peter Beinart (USA): Senior Political Writer, The Daily Beast; Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; Author
- Professor Anton Zellinger (Austria): Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantam Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna. Recipient of Wolf Prize in Physics, Isaac Newton Medal, Institute of Physics
- Mr. Emanuele Fiano (Italy): Member, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Partito Democratico; former President, Jewish Community of Milan; former Director, Union of Jewish Communities in Italy
- Mr. Mustafa Akyol (Turkey): Columnist, Hurriyet Daily News; Regular Visitor on Turkish TV
- Ms. Alana Newhouse (USA): Editor-in-Chief; former Culture Editor, The Forward
- Professor Chung Min Lee (South Korea): Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University; Member, President’s Foreign Policy Advisory Council, Presidential Committee on Future & Vision; Government Advisor
- Professor Olaf Blanke (Switzerland): Director, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Consultant Neurologist, Department of Neurology
- Professor Jeffrey Hoffman (USA): Former NASAAstronaut; Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
- Professor Robert Pacifici (USA): CSO, Drug Discovery & Development, Research Triangle Park Laboratories of Eli Lilly and Company
- Dr. Giora Feuerstein (USA/Israel): Chief Scientific Officer & VP, Translational Medicine, Adlyfe, Inc.; Former Assistant VP & Head of Discovery Translational Medicine, Wyeth Research;
- Professor Nina Khrushcheva (USA/Russia): Professor of International Affairs, The New School; Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
- Mr. Justin Korda (Israel): Executive Director, ROI Community
- Mr. Jay Michaelson (USA): Writer, scholar, and activist; Associate Editor, Religion Dispatches Magazine; Columnist & contributing editor, the Forward; Founding editor, Zeek magazine; Founding director of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality
- Mr. Kapil Komireddi (India): Writer of foreign affairs and Indian foreign policy
- Mr. Pankaj Mishra (India): Essayist and novelist; Notable for his book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, a sociological study of small-town India, and his writing for the New York Review of Books.
- Mr. Salameh Nematt (Jordan): Journalist; Communications Strategist; Founder of Pillar Seven
- Dr. David Makovsky (USA): Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute; Adjunct Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Professor Miguel Nicolelis (Brazil): Physician and Scientist, best known for his pioneering work in Reading Monkey Thought
- Dr. Diane Pinto (France): Historian of Contemporary European History; Senior Fellow, Institute for Jewish Policy Research; Director, IJPR’s Voices for theRes Publica: Re-Discovering the Common Good Project
- Mr. Gideon Rachman (UK): Journalist; Chief Foreign Affairs commentator, Financial Times; Writes on American foreign policy, the European Union and globalization.
- Professor Tomaso Poggio (USA): Eugene McDermott Professor, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director, Center for Biological & Computational Learning; Foreign Member of the Italian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Mr. Xavier Niel (France): Entrepreneur and businessman; Founder and majority shareholder, the French Internet service provider Iliad; Co-owner, the newspaper Le Monde; Deputy Chairman, the Board of Directors & Chief Strategy Officer, Iliad
- Professor Minxin Pei (China): Expert, governance in China, U.S.-Asia relations and democratization in developing nations; Director, the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies; Associate research manager of the Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College;
- Mr. Salman Shaikh (Qatar): Director of the Brookings Doha Center; Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy; former Special Assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process; former Director for Policy and Research, Office of H.H. Sheikha Mozah Bin Nasser Al Missned
- Mr. Amir Taheri (Iran/UK): Journalist, writes about Middle East affairs and topics related to Islamistterrorism
- Dr. Amir Amedi (Israel) - Senior Lecturer, Medical Neurobiology, Cognitive Science; Member, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences; Member, Inter-disciplinary Center for Neuronal Computation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Recipient of the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research (2011)
- Ayaan Hirsi-Ali (The Netherlands) - outspoken defender of women's rights in Islamic societies, originally from Somalia; fellow, American Enterprise Institute; former Member, House of Representatives; Screenwriter, Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures; Founder, women's rights organization the AHA Foundation
- Kathy Manning (USA) - Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Jewish Federations of North America, the first woman to hold the top leadership position in the Federation system; immediate past chair of the Executive Committee, JFNA; Past President, Greensboro Jewish Federation
- Renana Peres (Israel) – Assistant Professor, Marketing at School of Business Admin, Hebrew University; Research interests include Innovation diffusion and the evolution of markets for new products; Industrial marketing, Neural networks brain modeling; Founder of Persay Ltd (subsidiary of Converse Technology).
- Dr. James Sebenius (USA) - Gordon Donaldson Professorship of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations; Founder and Principal, Lax Sebenius: The 3-D Negotiation™ Group LLC
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