Former Dean and Joesph Safra Chaired Professor for Capital Markets and Financial Institutions at Tel Aviv University Coller School of Management and the Chairman of weSure Insurance.Before joining TAU served as the Philip H. Geier Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a member of the the Accounting, Business Law and Taxation division at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. Award-winning teacher and researcher with vast experience in the corporate world. Served and currently serve on the board of directors of various corporations including chairman of the board, chairman of risk management and audit committees of publicly traded (Nasdaq and TASE) and private companies (U.S, U.K and Israel).Taught courses within the MBA, Executive MBA and Doctoral programs at Columbia Business school and Tel Aviv University. Present routinely at leading institutions around the world.My research investigations focus on the effects of frictions created by governance, accounting, taxation and business law on debt and equity markets around the world. Among other issues, I research equity and debt capital raising, tax strategies and fraud detection.Approached regularly as an expert about various issues by large corporations, financial institutions and the media (Including the NYT, WSJ and Forbes).