Conference Keynotes: Dr. Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel and Professor Eduardo Schwartz, UCLA

The conference will commence with an opening reception and dinner on Sunday, June 23rd. The following three days will include multiple concurrent sessions with lunch speakers, panels, and plenary sessions.

 

Dr. Stanley Fischer, current Governor of the Bank of Israel and formerly of MIT, the World Bank, and the IMF, and Professor Eduardo Schwartz, UCLA, have been confirmed as conference keynote speakers.

 

Conference sessions will be held at the Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Conference sessions on Monday, June 24th will be followed by a walking tour of the Old City of Jerusalem and dinner at the Dan Jerusalem Hotel. Tuesday’s program will include traveling to the Judean desert to visit the ancient fortress of Masada and the Dead Sea.

The final day of the conference will include morning sessions, a short lunch, and In the afternoon we will travel to Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest and most cosmopolitan city and business center. The Tel Aviv program will include a guided walking tour of the heritage restoration in Neve Tzedek, the city’s oldest neighborhood, and a tour of some of the 4,000 Bauhaus-style buildings in the city, the most of any city in the world and the reason for Tel Aviv’s recognition as a UNESCO historic cultural site. The day will culminate with a gala closing dinner in Tel Aviv.

More details:  http://www.areuea-jerusalem2013.co.il/