Inauguration of the Boris Mints Institute
10:00 Prof. Itai Sened, Head of BMI, Chair of the Department of Public Policy, Founding Head of the School of Social Sustainability
10:10 A new Perspective on Conflict Resolution Venezuela Hall (527)
Keynote Speech: Prof. Ephraim Yaar, Chair of the Evens Program for Conflict Resolution, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Nimrod Rosler, Department of Public Policy and the Evens Program for Conflict Resolution
Dr. Eugene Tartakovsky, the Tel Aviv University School of Social Work
Dr. Sami Miaari, Tel Aviv University Department of Labor Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences
15:00 Inauguration of the BMI Institute Lobby of the Naftali Building
15:15 Donation Honoring Ceremony Venezuela Hall (527)
Prof. Joseph Klafter, President of Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Jacob A. Frenkel, Chairman of the Board of Governors
Prof. Yaron Oz, Rector
Prof. Tamar Ronen-Rosenbaum, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr. Boris Mints
15:30 The Global Energy Challenge
Prof. Itai Sened, Chair of BMI and of the Department of Public Policy
Dr. Yuval Shteinitz, Israel's Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water
Prof. Miranda Schreurs, Director of the Environmental Policy Research Center, Freie University, Berlin
16:15-18:00 The Refugee Global Challenge
Chair: Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Former Ambassador of Israel to USA and President Emeritus of Tel-Aviv University
Prof. Armen Darbinian,Rector of Russian-Armenian State University and former Prime-Minister of Armenia
Dr. Simeon Djankov, Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria
Remes Seppo Yukha, Co-Founder and Chairman of EOS Russia
Václav Klaus, Co- Founder of the Václav Klaus Institute, former President of the Czech Republic
