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Conference Co-chairs | Globalisation and Innovation

Conference Co-chairs

Gili Drori

Gili Drori

Gili S. Drori is professor of sociology and anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Director of The European Forum at The Hebrew University. She also serves as President of the Israeli Sociological Society. Gili earned her academic education at Tel Aviv University (BA 1986; and MA 1989) and Stanford University (PhD, 1997, sociology). Before joining the faculty of The Hebrew University in 2011, Gili served as Director of IR Honors Program and taught at Stanford University for a decade. She also taught at the University of California Berkeley, the Technion (Israel), and University of Bergamo (Italy) and was a guest scholar at Uppsala University (Sweden). Gili’s publications speak to her research interests in: globalization and glocalization; organizational change and rationalization; world society theory; science, innovation and higher education; technology divides; and, culture and policy regimes.

Dafna Kariv

 

 

Dafna Kariv

Professor Dafna Kariv is the Vice President for Global Initiatives and Development at the College of Management (COLLMAN), Rishon Lezion, Israel, and the Chair the Department of Entrepreneurship and of NOVUS, Center of Entrepreneurship at the School of Business, Administration. She is the academic manager of the dual degree in collaboration with Zicklin School, Baruch College, NY. Professor Kariv is Affiliate Professor at HEC, Montreal, Canada.She is the co-director of the Center for Social Investments and Businesses, supported by the Rothschild Caesarea Foundation and Dualis Social Investment Fund. Prof. Kariv is the author of five academic books, all around entrepreneurship, published with Routledge UK, Routledge, NY and Edward Elgar, UK. She has published numerous papers in entrepreneurship in academic journals, with research teams from Canada, Europe and US. Kariv’s research focuses on international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial performance, entrepreneurial education and gender. She is a recipient of several prized funds including the European Commission funds; she is involved in many academic boards, the Ambassador of ‘German-Israeli-Startup-Exchange Program’ (GISEP); and a consultant of the Ministry of Education for entrepreneurship programs.