Zvika Neeman  held positions at Boston University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is now a professor of economics at Tel Aviv University.

His main research areas is economic and game theory and in particular the theory of mechanism design. He is also interested in law and economics.

Neeman completed his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University in 1995.

Professor Robert Townsend began his work as a theorist working on general equilibrium models, contract theory, and mechanism design. He is known for his seminal work on costly state verification, the revelation principle, optimal multi-period contracts, the decentralization of economies with private information, models of money with spatially separated agents, and forecasting the forecasts of others.