Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is currently the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies and Lester Crown Professor in Management Practice at the Yale School of Management, as well as founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, a nonprofit educational and research institute focused on CEO leadership and corporate governance. He previously served as full tenured professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School for a decade and a professor at the Harvard Business School for a decade.
  

Professor Sonnenfeld’s related research has been published in 100 scholarly articles which appeared in the leading academic journals in management, and he has authored eight books, including The Hero’s Farewell, an award-winning study of CEO succession, and another best seller, Firing Back, a study on leadership resilience in the face of adversity.
 

His work is regularly cited by the general media in such outlets as: BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC as well as PBS, and he is a staff contributor for CNBC and a staff columnist for FORTUNE, TIME, Chief Executive, and Corporate Board Member.
 

He has advised the White House, U.S. State Department, U.S. Treasury Department, and Council of Economic Advisers on Russian economic sanctions and business retreats and has testified to the U.S. Congress. BusinessWeek listed Sonnenfeld as one of the world’s 10 most influential business school professors and Directorship magazine has listed him among the 100 most influential figures in corporate governance. 

Jesse M. Fried is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School, Duisenberg School of Finance, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and Reichman University. He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Of most relevance to the current panel: Fried has been the faculty adviser to the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) and the HLS Alliance for Israel. He also is a member of the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism.

Nim is a junior at Harvard College studying economics and computer science. Prior to joining Harvard, Nim served as the Spokesperson of the Head of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Israeli parliament. Nim also worked as the Spokesperson of a Committee appointed by Israel’s Prime Minister to slow the spread of variants and served as an officer in the IDF Spokesperson unit. 

   

Nim co-leads Harvard Israel Trek, a delegation of 100 Harvard College students from all faiths to Israel every spring break. Together with his roommate, a Muslim student from Lebanon, Nim co-founded a group of Israeli and Arab students who are committed to taking mutually beneficial actions in the Middle East, under the leadership of Prof. Arthur Segel and Prof. Michael Sandel. 

    

Since October 7th, Nim has served as the student representative on Harvard’s Task Force to combat antisemitism and has been a member of the University’s intellectual Vitality Initiative. Nim also leads “Survive to Tell” a page managed by Harvard Students to tell the stories of the massacre and the hostages, which reached over 25m views and has over 100k followers. 

   

Nim is a Vice President at Xfund, an early-stage venture capital firm, a Roberts Family Technology Innovation Fellow at Harvard Business School, and co-founded the Harvard Undergraduate Behavioral Strategy Group, a behavioral economics consulting club. 

Jason E. Klein is an experienced media CEO and builder of digital and traditional businesses who has led two successful turnarounds.  He is founder and CEO of On Grid Ventures with a portfolio of 25+ early stage companies.  Mr. Klein is co-President of the HBS Alumni Angels Association with 20 chapters across four continents, and Chairman of the largest chapter, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York.  Mr. Klein was previously CEO of Newspaper National Network LP; and CEO of Times Mirror Magazines/Time4 Media, publisher of 25 titles including Golf Magazine, Field & Stream, and Popular Science. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey and his non-profit involvement has included board membership at The Forward
(formerly the Jewish Daily Forward) and the NYC Police Foundation.

Mr. Klein has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Dartmouth College.