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Dr. Emmanuel Navon (formerly: Mréjen) is a consultant, an academic and a public speaker specialized in international relations. He was born in 1971 in Paris, where he went to an English-speaking school and graduated from Sciences-Po (MA in Public Administration), one of Europe's most distinguished universities. While at Sciences-Po he interned at the French Foreign Ministry, specializing in International Organizations, and at the French Finance Ministry, specializing in International Political Economy. In 1993, he moved to Israel, pursuing graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a Ph.D. in International Relations. During his graduate studies he consulted to the Israeli Foreign Ministry on UN Reform and was selected to join the Shalem Center as a research fellow. He was awarded the Yehoshafat Harkabi Prize for his MA Thesis and the Yaacov Herzog Price for his Doctoral Dissertation.

Upon the completion of his academic studies, he worked as a consultant for Arttic, the leading group in Europe and Israel specialized in the preparation and management of technology-related partnerships. There, he built European-Israeli consortia and consulted to large Israeli companies such as the Israel Aircraft Industries, Israel Electric, and Teva. After Arttic, he served as Vice-President of GoldNames, an investment company focusing on serving the internet domain name asset class, which served 450 customers. He was instrumental in building the company's presence in the French-speaking market, and became well acquainted with Israel's high-tech industry.

With the sudden deterioration of Israel's international image and economic activity at the turn of the new millennium, Dr. Navon engaged in writing and public speaking, making the case for Israel in the foreign media and on university campuses. He was appointed CEO of the Business Network for International Cooperation (BNIC), an organization founded by Israeli high-tech legends Yehuda Zisapel and Eli Ayalon, to train Israeli business leaders for pro-Israel advocacy overseas. A recognized expert on Israel advocacy, Navon was invited to submit a working paper on that topic to the Sixth Herzliyah Conference. He also co-authored for the Institute for Policy and Strategy a guide to pro-Israel advocacy for US University campuses.

In 2005, Emmanuel Navon left BNIC and founded his own company, The Navon Group Ltd. (which became The Navon-Levy Group in 2007), a consulting firm that opens market opportunities for Israeli companies in Africa to the mutual benefit of Africa's economic development and of Israel's international outreach.

Emmanuel Navon taught public administration at Bar-Ilan University between 2001 and 2004. Since 2002, he is a guest lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, where he teaches International Relations at the Abba Eban Graduate Program for Diplomatic Studies. He also organizes and chairs the "Ambassadors' Forum," a regular encounter where foreign diplomats and leading Israel public figures jointly discuss current international affairs.

Emmanuel Navon is a proud reservist in the IDF, and a no less proud member of Likud (Israel's largest conservative party), and of the Movement for Quality of Government in Israel (an Israeli NGO committed to clean politics).

He sits on the boards of TrackBull Mutual Funds, an Israeli investment firm specialized in EFTs, and of EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth), a brave and politically incorrect Washington think tank.

Dr. Navon is a regular political commentator for television channels, radio stations and newspapers in Israel and in France. He is fluent in English, Hebrew and French, and is conversant in German.

He lives in Efrat, Israel, with his wife and four children.