​Argov Team

 

​ ​Program Founder - Gideon Argov, founder of the Shlomo Argov Fellows Program. Gideon is an advisory director at Berkshire Partners, an investment firm based in Boston, as well as the chairman of the board of Servotronix, an automation company based in Petach Tikva Israel. He previously served as chief executive officer of Entegris Incorporated (2004-2012) and Kollmorgen Corporation (1991- 2000). Gideon is a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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​ ​Dr. Alisa Rubin is the founding academic director of the Argov Fellows Program. She is a senior lecturer at RU's Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, where she has received several awards for excellence in teaching. Alisa is also an external faculty affiliate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Public Diplomacy Collaborative and formerly served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. She completed her Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, her M.A. in international economics and finance at Brandeis University and her B.A. (summa cum laude) at Yale University. Alisa specializes in international political economy (Middle East), globalization, and business-government relations. Her current research focuses on American higher education in the Middle East and the reform of higher education for the 21st century.
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sapir Frieman

Sapir recently returned to Israel to serve as the Argov Program Manager after four years in the US, where she served as a Jewish Agency Israel Emissary at the University of Maryland and the University of Connecticut. In this role, she worked on strengthening the Israeli-American relationships on campus, created new communities and supported the Jewish and non-Jewish students. Prior to her position as an Emissary, Sapir served in the IDF as a commander in the Education Corps and as a head counselor in the Bnei Hamoshavim youth movement. Sapir holds a B.A. in education with a focus on the integration of art in education and learning disabilities program from Tel-Hai Academic College. During her studies, she was a member and then head of the Student Union Cultural Department, where she created diverse cultural events for her fellow students and faculty.