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Prof. Glenn Yago

Senior Director, Milken Innovation Center

Prof. Glenn Yago

Senior Director, Milken Innovation Center

Prof. Glenn Yago is the Director of the Milken Innovation Center at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research and a senior fellow and founder of the Financial Innovations Labs® at the Global Milken Institute. Yago is a leading authority on financial innovation, capital markets, emerging markets, and environmental finance. Yago’s work focuses on the innovative use of financial instruments to solve long-standing economic development and social and environmental challenges. His research and projects have contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets and entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world. Yago oversees a range of activities that are devoted to accelerating Israel’s economic growth, bridging social and economic gaps, and securing Israel’s global competitiveness through financial technology transfers that increases the impact of government policy, philanthropy, and private-sector investment.

Yago is a visiting professor at the Hebrew University School of Business Administration and a visiting professor at the universities of Berkeley and San Diego in California.