Bernard Avishai

Visiting Professor of Government, is Adjunct Professor of Business at the Hebrew University, and formerly taught at MIT and Duke. A Guggenheim fellow, he is the author of 'The Tragedy of Zionism,’ 'A New Israel,' 'The Hebrew Republic,' and 'Promiscuous: Portnoy's Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness.'

He contributes regularly on political economy and Israeli affairs to the New Yorker; and has written dozens of articles for Harper's, The New York Review, The Nation and New York Times Magazine. He is a former editor of Harvard Business Review, and International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG.

Education

• B.A. McGill University
• M.A. University of Toronto
• Ph.D. University of Toronto

Companies

• Visiting Professor of Government Dartmouth College (2011)
• Adjunct Professor of Busness Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2009)
• Author The Tragedy of Zionism, A New Israel, The Hebrew Republic, Promiscuous (1985)
• Visiting Professor Fuqua School of Business (2004 — 2006)
• Director, Zell Entrepreneurship Program Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya Israel (2002 — 2004)
• Executive Vice President Cering (a carve out from KPMG) (2000 — 2001)
• International Director of Intellectual Capital KPMG (1998 — 2001)
• Director of Product Development Monitor Group (1992 — 1996)
• Technology Strategy Editor Harvard Business Review (1987 — 1991)