Voices of Impact

Dan Glickman is the former U.S. secretary of agriculture and chair of APCO’s International Advisory Council. He previously served as executive director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nonpartisan educational initiative for members of Congress. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Secretary Glickman chaired the Motion Picture Association of America, directed Harvard’s Institute of Po...

Dr. Hila Oren is the CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation. Previously, she founded and led Tel Aviv Global, an initiative from the Mayor’s Office aimed at elevating the city’s global brand. Under her leadership, the "Startup City" vision was launched, positioning Tel Aviv-Yafo as the Best Smart City in the World in 2014. Hila also directed the Tel Aviv Centennial Administration and held leader...

Dr. Jeremy England is a Visiting Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University and Vice President at GlaxoSmithKline, leading artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Physics at MIT and a Principal Research Scientist at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things. Jerem...

Steven Rattner is the Chairman and CEO of Willett Advisors, which oversees Michael Bloomberg’s personal and philanthropic investments. He is also the Economic Analyst on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and regularly contributes to The New York Times. Previously, Steven was Counselor to the Treasury Secretary, where he led the Obama Administration’s successful auto industry restructuring, chronicled in his boo...

Dr. Ariel Muzicant is an Austrian-Israeli businessman, the President of the European Jewish Congress, a Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, and a longtime leader of the Viennese Jewish community. He previously served as President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG) and President of the B’nai B’rith Zwi-Perez-Chajes Lodge, while also initiating the establishment of the Zwi Perez...

Dr. David B. Agus is a doctor and biomedical researcher, the Founding CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute, and a professor of medicine and engineering at USC. An international leader in global health, he holds leadership roles at the World Economic Forum and co-chairs the Global Health Security Consortium. Dr. Agus is also a CBS News contributor and the author of four bestselling books, including...

Dror Bin is the CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority, leading efforts to strengthen Israel's innovation ecosystem and support its knowledge industry. Previously, he served as President and CEO of RAD Data Communications and held leadership roles at Comverse Technology, Carmel Ventures, and Shaldor Consulting. With extensive experience in telecommunications, venture capital, and strategic co...

Natan Sharansky served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel from 2009–2018. Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, he is a prominent human rights activist, Prisoner of Zion, and a leader in the struggle for Soviet Jews' right to immigrate to Israel. After requesting to make aliyah, Natan was arrested on false charges of treason and espionage, spending nine years in the Soviet Gulag...

Ambassador Danny Ayalon is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Silver Road Capital Group and Co-Chairman of Silver Stone Global Partners. He is also a GP Partner at Germin8 Ventures, a leading Food & Ag Tech investment fund. Danny serves on the Boards of Tel Aviv University and the Lantos Human Rights and Justice Foundation, and he is a visiting professor at Yeshiva University teaching Statecraft...

David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post from 2004 to 2011 and as the editor and publisher of The Jerusalem Report from 1998 to 2004. David is the author of Still Life with Bombers and A Little Too Close to God , and the co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin , which won the U.S. Nation...

Michael Granoff is the founder and CEO of Pomona Capital, a global private equity firm managing over $15 billion, with offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong. He served on the 1992 Presidential Transition Team for the Treasury and was appointed by President Clinton as Chairman of the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund and the Albanian American Development Foundation, the largest non-profit in t...

Erica Lyons is the Board Chair of the Hong Kong Jewish Historical Society and a long-serving delegate to the World Jewish Congress, representing the Jewish communities of Hong Kong and China. An award-winning author of works such as Alone Together on Dan Street and Zhen Yu and the Snake , she is also the Founder and Director of PJ Library Hong Kong, where she fosters Jewish education and identity...

Russ Feingold is the President of the American Constitution Society. He served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011 and a Wisconsin State Senator from 1983 to 1993. Russ was the U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2013 to 2015. During his 18 years in the Senate, he was ranked 6th for bipartisan voting and co-sponsored t...

Winnie Sandler Grinspoon is the President of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) and a lifetime trustee. Widely recognized for her impact in the Jewish world and beyond, she has received the Esther Award from Hebrew College, the Norman B. Leventhal Award from JCC Greater Boston, and the Bernard Reisman Award from Brandeis University. Winnie has also been named to the Forward 50 and Algemeiner 10...

Mitchell R. Julis is the co-founder, co-chairman, and co-CEO of Canyon Partners, LLC, a global alternative asset management firm based in Dallas, Texas specializing in value-oriented investments for institutional clients. A Princeton (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law (J.D., magna cum laude), and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., honors) graduate, he serves on the boards of Brown...

Edouard Cukierman is the Founder & Managing Partner of Catalyst Investments and the Chairman of Cukierman & Co. Investment House, which has facilitated over $10.5 billion in corporate finance deals since 1993. He is also Chairman and CEO of Catalyst Investors’ Club. Edouard serves on the boards of Otorio and Curalife, having previously held board roles at Tufin, Orex, Dori Media, Omrix, an...

Yotam Polizer is the CEO of IsraAID, an international humanitarian aid organization based in Israel. Since its founding in 2001, IsraAID has responded to crises in 60 countries and provided support to over 5 million people affected by human-made and climate-related disasters. A recipient of the Charles Bronfman Prize, Yotam is fluent in Hebrew, English, Japanese, and Nepalese, with basic proficien...

Mickey Bergman is the CEO of Global Reach and Vice President of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. He has championed the release of political prisoners and hostages worldwide, including Paul Whelan, Brittney Griner, Trevor Reed, and Danny Fenster. Author of In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad , Mickey was honored in 2023 with the Jam...

Stephen Bronfman is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and environmental advocate. He serves as the Executive Chairman of Claridge Inc., a private investment firm representing the interests of the Stephen Bronfman family, and he leads the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation. Stephen is the Chief Revenue Officer of the Liberal Party of Canada and a senior advisor to Prime Minister,...

Ambassador Ido Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign Service and Israel’s longest-serving Consul General in New York and the tri-state area, holding the rank of Ambassador from 2010 to 2016. Ido is a co-founder of the consultancy Emerson Rigby, co-founder and principal at the British-Israeli investment firm EA2K, and a member of the International Advisory Council for APCO Worldwide, Val...

Professor Boaz Ganor is the President of Reichman University (IDC) and founder of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). He also chairs ICT’s World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, serves on the International Advisory Council of Singapore’s International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, and co-founded the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and P...

Craig Newmark is best known as the founder of the classifieds ad site Craigslist, which showed tens of millions of Americans that the Internet could be reasonably useful and easy to use. Now, he engages in full-time philanthropy, focusing on helping and protecting the people who help and protect our country in areas like cybersecurity, trustworthy journalism, and support for military families and...

Dan Ariely is a Professor of Business Administration and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University. A renowned expert in behavioral economics, he researches the irrational ways people behave and explains these concepts in simple language. From June 2012 to September 2022, he wrote the advice column Ask Ariely for The Wall Street Journal . Dan is the author of three...

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College and went on to earn her Ph. D. in philosophy from Princeton University. Rebecca is the author of numerous works including The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity , Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away , and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence o...

Kenneth R. Feinberg is an attorney who has helped resolve many of America’s most challenging and widely known disputes. An international expert in complex mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution, he is well known as the Special Master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Ken has also worked on Virginia Tech’s Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, the BP Gulf Coast Claims Facil...