Ido Aharoni (Aronoff)

Ido Aharoni (Aronoff) is an Israeli diplomat, advisor to global companies, public speaker, university lecturer, writer and investor.

He was born in Tel Aviv and spent his entire diplomatic career in the United States, on both coasts. He is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel Program (2002), and a well-known political marketing, positioning and place branding practitioner.

Since his retirement from government in 2016, he has held senior advisory positions with several multinational corporations, such as APCO Worldwide, Libra Group, MasterCard, Value Base, Bank Leumi USA, among others. He has also advised several publicly traded technology companies.

He has served as Global Distinguished Professor of Business at Touro University and has also served as a Global Distinguished Professor for International Relations at New York University. He has been a Member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University since 2015 and a lecturer at the university’s Coller School of Management since 2018. He is also the Maurray Galinson Professor of International Relations at University of California in San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University’s Business School (SDSU).

He has frequently appeared in national and international media as a commentator and opinion writer. Ido has been Israel’s longest-serving Consul-General in New York (2010-2016).

Ido is also a Special Advisor to the Executive Chairman of Libra Group.