BMI’s 7th Annual Conference: Research, Innovation and Global Policy
May 11-12, 2022
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
14:00 | The Garden Suite, Naftali Building
Opening Remarks
- Prof. Itai Sened, Dean, Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Head of BMI
15:45-17:00 | The Garden Suite, Naftali Building
BMI on the biggest challenge facing the globe – Part 1: No More War?
Moderator: Prof. Itai Sened, Dean of the G.H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences at TAU
Participants:
- Prof. Miranda Schreurs, Professor of Environment and Climate Policy, School of Governance, Technical University of Munich
The European Energy Crisis Following the war in Ukraine - Mr. Seppo Remes, Co-Founder and Chairman of EOS Russia
Sanctions – who and what do they serve? - David R. Francis, Distinguished Professor and Director Emeritus of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St. Louis
Collective Memory in Eastern Europe
Thursday, May 12th, 2022
11:00-12:30 | Green Naftali meeting room (Floor -1), Naftali Building
BMI on the biggest challenge facing the globe – Part 2: No More War?
Moderator: Dr. Nimrod Rosler, Head of the INTL program of Conflict Resolution and Mediation, TAU
Participants:
- Dr. Igor Lukšić, Associate Professor, UDG University, and Former Prime Minister of Montenegro
- Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Former Ambassador of Israel in the USA and former TAU President
- Prof. Shlomo Ben Ami, Co-founder & VP of the Toledo International Centre for Peace, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Internal Security of Israel
- Prof. Evyatar Matanya, Head of Tel Aviv University’s MA program in Security Studies, founder and former Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate
Q & A
14:00-15:00 | Yaakov Efter Hall (001), Naftali Building – ground floor
- Address of BMI Founder and President: Dr. Boris Mints (15 min.)
- mRNA technology and its impact on sustainable future
Prof. Katalin Karikó, Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapies, BioNTech
Presented by: Inbal Hazan – Halevy, Ph.D., Manager of the Laboratory of Precision Nano-Medicine at TAU
- Prof. Hadas Mamane, Head of the Environmental Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering, TAU
- Eitan Benson, BMI Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, TAU
- Engineers Without Borders – TAU Student Delegation to Tanzania
16:15 –17:30 | Green Naftali meeting room (Floor -1), Naftali Building
Research Presentations by BMI Fellows Part 2: The Global Challenge of Refugees
- Refugees in town: assessing the “local turn” of forced migrants’ integration
Nora Meissner, BMI Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, TAU - Roots of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Towards an Escalatory Process Model
Petr Pesov, BMI Fellow, Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program, TAU - Decentralized redistribution of wealth: A case study
Eve Guterman, BMI Fellow, Department of Public Policy, TAU