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News Release

New Report by the Milken Innovation Center Details Innovative Financing Solutions to Rebuild and Accelerate Growth Across Israel

20 February 2025 (Jerusalem, Israel) – Israel’s economy is facing significant challenges as communities, businesses, and local authorities navigate the financial impact of recent events.
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Glenn Yago

Senior Fellow and Founder of the Financial Innovations Labs at the Milken Institute
Glenn Yago is a senior fellow and founder of the Financial Innovations Labs at the Milken Institute and the senior director of the Milken Innovation Center and Blum Lab for Developing Economies at the Jerusalem Institute.
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Report

FinTech: What’s New, What’s Needed

In two private roundtables at the 2024 Milken Institute Asia Summit and the 2024 Insights Forum, the Milken Institute and Global Finance and Technology Network gathered leading technologists, development banks, government officials, payment...
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Quintus Lim

Associate Director, Asia, Milken Institute International
Quintus Lim is an associate director of policy and programs for the International pillar at the Milken Institute. He focuses on policy areas such as R&D financing, technological adoption across domains such as health, food, agriculture, finance, and the broader economy, and issues of ecosystem building.
News Release

The Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit Returns to Abu Dhabi November 17-18

Washington, DC (November 16, 2022) – The 4th annual Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit returns to Abu Dhabi November 17-18 for the first time in more than two years. The summit will gather hundreds of attendees, including C...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
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Power of Ideas

Redefining Asia: The Middle East

The world is changing. Digital disruption is sweeping the world at breakneck speed. The global balance of power oscillates in line with technological advancements and whoever is currently setting the pace. Against a backdrop of increasing...
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Simon Galpin

Senior Advisor, Investment Promotion, and Former Managing Director, Bahrain Economic Development Board
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