associate professor of economics. Expert on behavioral economics and decision making. Member of the Budgeting and Planning Committee. Chairwoman of the Research and Development of International Ties Authority at the Emek Yezreel Academic College.
Visiting Assistant Professor Yifat Aran joined the faculty in 2020. Yifat holds an LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a JSM and JSD from Stanford University, where she was a Fellow in the Olin Program in Law and Economics and the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (SIGF). Yifat is a commercial litigator and a former Israeli Supreme Court law clerk. Yifat also holds a faculty position at the University of Haifa Law School.
Mahmoud Qadan is Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Haifa. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing, the microstructure of capital markets, financial econometrics, and behavioral finance.
Sara Lev leads the Start-Up MBA program at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.
Saul Orbach is a highly accomplished Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Social Impact Investor, C-Suite Officer and Executive, Consultant, Lecturer, Thought Leader, Board Member, and Advisor, with over 34 years of extensive experience building and exiting startup and growth companies, turning around failing companies, as well as training the next generation of entrepreneurs. Saul is the Co-Founder and CEO of his 8th startup, NephFlo, Inc., a company developing artificial implantable and wearable kidneys.