General Director of Georgian agribusiness company YFN Georgia LLC
Simon Appleby is General Director of Georgian agribusiness company YFN Georgia LLC; the company is a sister enterprise to another firm in Hong Kong in business since 1997. YFN Georgia was stablished in 2010 and is engaged in irrigation design/construction and farm management, as well as technical and business consultancy for domestic and foreign commercial enterprises in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. The company has recently started commercialising cloud-based farm management software for small and medium-sized farms in the South Caucasus, running on farmers' smartphones and integrated with the traceability systems of major food processors. The company also is the local food safety consulting, certification and audit partner of certification agency TUV Rheinland's Caucasus representative, Cyprus-based Management Mix.
Simon is also co-founder and Director of Georgia-based agro-tourism resort developer Kartlos Group LLC, with activities in three Georgian regions and two districts of southern Armenia.
After degrees in veterinary science in the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia, and a career in Japanese corporate agribusiness, Simon established his own consultancy and farm management operations in Indonesia and the Philippines in 1997. In 2002 he established Greater China operations, based in Hong Kong, and he and his local team engaged in similar activities in China's aquaculture, dairy, beef, pork, horticulture and biofuel industries in twelve different provinces, from four regional offices.
Simon's personal interests in Georgian agriculture are focussed on the use of locally-adapted IT to improve agricultural product safety and open new high-value markets, and how technologically advanced foreign-invested enterprises may act as knowledge centres and extension facilities for their contractors and surrounding smallholders
Professor, Department of Economics, Hebrew University
Michael studied at the London School of Economics. Since 1989 he has been Pinhas Sapir Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to that, he held academic appointments at the London Business School and City University, and professional appointments at the World Bank and the UK Treasury. He has consulted widely but particularly with public sector organizations.
His research interests include applied econometrics in the areas of labour, macroeconomics and energy. He currently teaches first degree courses in macroeconomics and econometrics, and a postgraduate course in the econometric analysis of time series. He has written 7 books on topics including macroeconomics, the world economy and economic development, as well as 100 refereed journal articles. One of his earliest papers was on the economics of corruption (World Development, 1976).
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Paul Wachtel
Chairman of ISET’s International Faculty Committee
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
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Paul Wachtel
Chairman of ISET’s International Faculty Committee
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
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Randall Filer
Professor, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center; President, CERGE-EI Foundation
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Emin Huseynov
Assistant to the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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