Bernard Avishai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bernard Avishai

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Bernard Avishai is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He lives in Jerusalem and the United States.
He has taught at Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dartmouth College, and was director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.
From 1998 to 2001 he was International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG LLP.
Before this he headed product development at Monitor Group, with which he is still associated.
From 1986 to 1991 he was technology editor of Harvard Business Review.
A Guggenheim Fellow, Avishai holds a doctorate in political economy from the University of Toronto.
Before turning to management, he covered the Middle East as a journalist.
He has written many articles and commentaries for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, Harper's Magazine and other publications.
He is the author of three books on Israel, including the widely read The Tragedy of Zionism, and the 2008 The Hebrew Republic.