It was an especially festive opening for the "Globes" 2012 Israel Business Conference at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv last night, with the lighting of the first Hanukah candle. The conference opened with a gala event that included dinner for the speakers, followed by cocktails and the candle lighting ceremony.
Foreign speakers included Dr. José Viñals, financial counselor and director, at the IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist and director, Global Energy Economics, International Energy Agency; Dr. Hans-Paul Bürkner, president and CEO, Boston Consulting Group, a leading international consulting firm; Richard Quest, CNN's top business host; Governor of the Czech National Bank Dr. Miroslav Singer, Prof. Tyler Cowen of George Mason University, who has been named by "The Economist" as one of the most influential economists of the past decade; Liz Gannes, business technology at AllThingsD, a leading global online publication; Kobi Faigenbaum, CEO, UBS Wealth Management Israel Ltd.; Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Dr. Peter Jarrett, head of the OECD Economics Department and an author of its review on the Israeli economy; and Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics Prof. Myron Scholes, and a co-developer of the Black and Scholes option pricing model.
Mingling with the overseas guests were Bank Hapoalim chairman Yair Seroussi, Bruria and David Wiessman, Itay and Gad Propper, Elisha Yanay, Eliezer and Tova Fishman, Anat Manipaz, Ronit Fishman, Eyal Fishman, Naomi and Avi Shomer, Rami and Ovadia Levy, Yehudit and Uriel Lynn, MobiApp chairman Oren Most, Revital and Doron Cohen, Yishai and Esther Levanon, Nir Sztern, Dov and Ofer Kotler, Eitan Madmon, "Globes" editor Hagai Golan, Sammy Sagol, Esther Eldan, Zohar Zisapel, Etty and Rami Caspi, Eli Glickman, Yossi Vardi, Erez Vigodman, Ad. Eli Organ and his wife Hagit, Rani Zim, Avi Ben-Tal, Didi Goldfinger, Zvika Abramovich, Ilan Yeshua, Yair Geller, Rami Yehoshua, Oren Halman, Adv. Haim Aharon, and many more.
The conference's first day opened this morning with remarks by President Shimon Peres, el Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai; Bank Hapoalim CEO Zion Kenan; and former Prime Minister Ehud .
The conference also features Alrov chairman Alfred Akirov, Shlomo Group Holdings chairman Shlomo Shmelzer and Israel Reif, Moshik Teumim, Danny Margalit, Israel Securities Authority chairman Shmuel Hauser, Zion Alkabetz, Zvika Yemini, Bina Bar-On, Efrat Duvdevani, Yoram Altman, Moody Kidon, Gabi Rosenberg, Ilan Capon, Prof. Prof. Steve Keen of the University of Western Sydney, SXSW music conferences director Mirko Whitfield, Jeff Pulver, Prof. Jacob Frankel, Dr. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, and many others.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on December 9, 2012
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