Speakers
Workshop 1: Cold War, Golden Age, Third Way - How did Left Movements change their Discourse?
Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Wroclawski University
Prof. Pawel Karolweski holds a B.A. and M.A. in Politics and Government from the University of Potsdam, German, where he also did his PhD with the thesis "The future Shape of Europe: Functionalism or federalism? The case study of the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union"...Click here for more information
Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a graduate of the Hebrew University and the London School of Economics, and served as Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Workshop 2: Loss of Voters - Loss of Power: The current Crisis of Social-Democracy
Wolfgang Merkel, Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Wolfgang Merkel was born in 1952 in Hof (Germany). He studied sports, sports science, history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and completed his doctoral thesis in political science in 1985. In 1994...
Fernando Vallespin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Fernando Vallespin holds degrees in law and political sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). From 2004 to 2008 he was the Diector of the Sociological Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas). Moreover...
Ami Vatury, University of Haifa
Amy Vatury received his PhD at the Ben-Gurion-University in 2005. In 2007 he
founded the union organization "Koach la Ovdim" and was elected Secretary in
2015...
Israel Waismel-Manor, University of Haifa
Israel Waismel-Manor is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa. His work focuses on political behavior and political communication, across campaigns and elections, mainly in the United States...
Danny Gutwein, University of Haifa
Danny Gutwein is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, and one of the most prominent and influential thinkers in the field of society and economics in Israel...
Workshop 3: Alternatives to Neoliberalism - Revisiting the Social Market Economy
René Cuperus, Director of International Relations at the Wiardi Beckman Foundation
René Cuperus was born in 1960, and studied politics, cultural history and cultural anthropology in Groningen and Lisbon. He was policy advisor to the chairpersons of the Dutch Labour Party Felix Rottenberg and Ruud Vreeman...
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Johanna Uekermann, Chairperson of the Young Socialists in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (JUSOS)
Johanna Uekermann was born in 1987, and holds a master's degree in political science, cultural geography, and sociology of the University of Würzburg. After completing her studies...
Rami Hod, Executive Director of the Social Economy Academy
Rami Hod holds a BA from the Haifa University's program for Social Economic History and Sociology as well as an MA in Sociology from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Before joining the Social Economic Academy...
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Dotan Leshem, University of Haifa
Dotan Leshem is a historian of systems of economic and political thought and a senior lecturer in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. Leshem's articles appeared in journals of history of economic thought, history of the humanities...
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Ophir Pines-Paz, Avoda
Ophir Pines Paz was born in 1961 in Rishon LeZion. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a BA in International Relations and a MA in Public Policy from the Tel Aviv University. Ophir was elected in the Knesset for the Avoda for the first time in 1996. He was Member of Knesset till 2010...
Workshop 4: Progressive approaches to global challenges - How to deal with conflicts in turbulent times
Robert Schütte, Chairman of Genocide Alert & Policy Fellow at Das Progressive Zentrum
Robert Schütte studied political science at the University of Cologne, Science Po Paris, and Harvard University. In 2007 he founded the human rights organisation Genocide Alert. In 2013...
Jeffrey Laurenti, Former Director of Policy Studies at United Nations
Association of the U.S. & Former Director of Foreign Policy Programs at The
Century Foundation
Jeffrey Laurenti holds a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in government from Harvard University, and a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From 1978...
Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elie Podeh is professor in the Department of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Board Member at Mitvim. His main fields of expertise are: Egypt, inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and education and culture in the Middle East...
MK Tamar Zandberg, Meretz
Tamar Zandberg was born in Ramat Gan in 1976. She holds a Masters Degree with honors in Social Psychology from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a Law Degree from Tel Aviv University. Before being elected in the Knesset for the first time in 2013 she taught at Sapir Academic College in the Management ...
Justin Wedes, Educator & Social Justice Activist
Justin Wedes is an educator and activist based in Detroit, Michigan. A graduate of the University of Michigan with degrees in physics and linguistics with High Honors...
Johan Hassel holds a bachelor's degree in business and economics of Lund University and a master's degree in political science and European governance of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2005...
Shay Biran, Chairman of the Social Economic Division at Histadrut
Shay Biran was born in 1981. He studied economics and political science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a master degree in public policy for manager from Tel Aviv University. He holds his master degree course in financial mathematics...
MK Yossi Yonah, Avoda (Labor Party)
Yoseph "Yossi" Yonah was born in 1953 in Kiryat Ata, Israel. Before joining the parliament, he was a professor of philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev with a research focus on socio-economic aspects of Israeli society, including multiculturalism and equality of opportunities in education...
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Leonard
Novy, Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Policy
(IfM)
Leonard Novy is a political scientist and publicist. He studied history and political science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Cambridge where he also completed his doctoral thesis...
Bar Gissin, Co-Chairperson of Young Meretz
Bar Gissin is an Israeli politician of the Young Meretz, the Youth movement of the Meretz Party. She holds a B.A. in Israeli Studies and Comparative Literature from the Haifa University and a M.A. in Jewish History Studies from the Tel Aviv University. Before she was elected as the Co-Chairperson...
MK Aida Touma-Sliman, Joint List
Aida Touma-Sliman was born in Nazareth July 16, 1964. She holds a BA. in psychology and Arabic literature from the University of Haifa. In 1992 she was Co-founder and CEO of Women Against Violence, the largest Arab women's NGO in Israel...
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Yael Sinai, Chairperson of Young Labor
Yael Sinai holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was Chairwoman of the Avoda at the Hebrew University and campaigned for the rights of subcontracted employees...
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Uri Zilbersheid, University of Haifa
Uri Zilbersheid holds a PhD from the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M, Germany, in political philosophy.
He teaches political philosophy at the School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa. He also teaches courses on the German political system and the European welfare state at the Center for German and European Studies at same university...
Christos Kanellopoulos, Syriza
Christos Kanellopoulos works as a policy advisor at Syriza and is a member of the secretariat of Syriza's European Policy Department. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens...
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Uri Avnery, Peace Activist, Journalist, Writer
Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer. He was born in 1923 in Beckum, Germany and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1933. He was member of the Irgun from 1938 till 1942...
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Moderation
Lilian Daaka, Expert on Education
Lilian Daaka holds a B.A in special education and counseling. She works as an English teacher at the multicultural high school Anna Frank in the kibbutz SaSa...
Fania Oz-Salzberger, Professor at the Universität Haifa School of Law and Center
Fania Oz-Salzberger was born in 1960 in Kibbutz Hulda. She
studied history and philosophy at the Tel Aviv University. She holds a PhD in "Scottish
and German Enlightments" from the University of Oxford. Fania was Senior Scholar at the
Lincoln College Oxford and Hornik Junior Research Fellow...
Ayelet Banai, University of Haifa
Ayelet Banai is
Lecturer in Politics at the University of Haifa, School of Political Sciences
and the Center for German and European Studies. She holds an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and...
Maisam has extensive experience in the area of leadership development with special interest in education, social studies and Criminology. She holds a BA in Sociology and Criminology and a MA degree in leadership education from Bar Ilan University...
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Nimrod Goren, Founder and Chairman of MITVIM
Nimrod Goren was born in 1973 in Israel. He studied Middle Easterm studies and political psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a PhD. The title of his dissertation...
Eli Salzberger, University of Haifa
Eli M. Salzberger was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association for Law and Economics. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law (1st in class). He clerked for Chief Justices Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinish...
Christian Thauer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christian Thauer is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer in International Relations and at the DAAD Center for German Studies. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, and the Yonsei University, Seoul, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence...
Werner Puschra, Executive Director of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Israel
Werner Puschra is the Executive Director of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Israel since August 2013. Before, he was the Executive Director of FES New York office since September 2008...