Prof. Yair Tauman was born in 1948, in Israel. Prof. Yair Tauman is a professor of economics at Stony Brooke University of New York, the dean of the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship and a former dean of the Arison School of Business at IDC Herzliya. He has been the academic director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program since 2009. He is a former director at Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel's largest banks.