Author: Ido Aharoni Aronoff

Ido Aharoni Aronoff is an Israeli diplomat, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has served as a Member of the Board Governors of Tel Aviv University’s since 2015 and a visiting lecturer at the university’s Coller School of Management since 2018. He is a co-founder of Israel-based consultancy Emerson Rigby Ltd., Co-Founder and Principal at British-Israeli investment company EA2K and a member of the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide, Value Base, MasterCard and The Libra Group. ​ Aharoni has served as Global Distinguished Professor for International Relations at New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science (2016-2022). He is a member of the board of directors of the World Jewish Sports Museum in Israel and is the host of TAU Unbound, the official English language podcast of Tel Aviv University. He is a co-founder and Global Ambassador for the Genius 100 Visions community, Chairman of the Charney Forum for New Diplomacy and Global Ambassador for Maccabi World Union. Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign service. He is a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel Program and a well-known nation branding practitioner. He is the host of TAU Unbound the English language podcast of Tel Aviv University. ​ Aharoni has been Israel's longest serving Consul-General in New York and the tri-state area to date. He held that position, with the rank of Ambassador, for six years (2010-2016) overseeing the operations of Israel’s largest diplomatic mission worldwide. ​

Trump in Israel – Israeli Public Opinion Matters

Published by: Newsmax  Saturday, 20 May 2017 03:25 PM EDT President Trump’s upcoming visit to Israel will be the eleventh presidential visit in Israel’s 69 years. This is hardly a spectacular record considering the intimacy between the two nations and the fact that Israel is the most reliable, like-minded, and ancillary ally of the United […]

Will Information Overload End Debate and Learning?

Published by: Newsmax Monday, 02 October 2017 03:47 PM EDT Indeed, modern Western society has gone on the “Information Super-Highway,” a term coined in the 1990’s, associated with former Vice President Al Gore. In 2010 Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, now Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc. famously made the claim that every two days, mankind creates as […]

Internet Simultaneously Connects, Insulates, and Alienates

Published by: Newsmax Friday, 20 October 2017 03:30 PM EDT Consider this. The World Wide Web was introduced about three decades ago. In 1997, only less than 2 percent of the world’s population were connected to it. Today, more than half of the world’s population has an Internet connection. But beyond connectivity, technology also enables various avenues […]

Abundant Online Political Discourse Lessens Media’s Influence

Published by: Newsmax Friday, 03 November 2017 03:14 PM EDT Modern technology opens channels of communication between all peoples. With a single tap, you can speak with, listen to, see and experience life with others who are worlds away. The globe is undeniably smaller than ever. Everyone has access, and equally, is accessible. Our political […]

The silent shifts in Saudi Arabia

Published by: The Jerusalem Post NOVEMBER 6, 2017 21:20 Something dramatic is happening is Saudi Arabia. What started as murmurs became tremors, and are now developing into major earthquakes. Saudi Arabia is a country that – though shrouded in tradition – is undergoing changes which may impact generations to come. There was a time in […]