Joanna Landau

CEO at Vibe Israel

Joanna Landau was born in London and moved to Israel with her family when she was 5 years old. She returned briefly to the UK for high school at the Jewish boarding school Carmel College. After serving in the IDF as a paramedic, she read law at Cambridge University where she gained BA and MA degrees. Joanna also holds an MBA, cum laude, from the Herzlia Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Joanna worked as a lawyer in the high-tech industry and established two Internet start-ups based in Tel Aviv. In November 2009, Joanna founded her first nonprofit, Kinetis, to change the way people think and feel about Israel. In December 2013, she established Vibe Israel, through which she has been promoting her vision since then.
Joanna is a governor of Tel Aviv University, a member of the International Education Committee of Taglit-Birthright, and a board member of the Brand Israel Group in New York. In 2013 she was voted by Forbes Israel as one of ten powerful women in Israel to look out for, and in 2015 she was shortlisted for the Rappaport Prize for a Change Making Woman. She lives in Tel-Aviv with her husband and three children.

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Lecture: “Time to Think Different”

Joanna landau, founder & CEO of Vibe Israel, a nonprofit organization leading initiatives to strengthen Israel’s brand in the world and connect millennials with Israel, provides an insightful overview and analysis of how Israel’s image can be improved. Looking at Israel as a brand, just like any other country, company or product, she looks at the three fundamental aspects of brand and image management – market, message and method – and shows how we could, and should, be looking at this whole matter differently. The lecture includes research about perceptions towards Israel which is no available online, and is as eye-opening as it is entertaining. Approximately 1 hour including Q&A. Joanna has lectured to a variety of audiences, large and small, and was the keynote speaker at the Government Press Office’s annual event with the foreign press, which included Q&A with the Prime Minister of Isreal.

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Vibe Israel

Vibe Israel is a not-for-profit organization leading initiatives to strengthen Israel’s brand in the world. We’re here to create a new conversation about Israel, a conversation about Israel’s creative energy.

Through our strong network of philanthropists and Israeli business people, we initiate and implement projects that market Israel’s competitive advantages to the world, while always seeking a social return on investment for our donors, and a commercial return on investment for our business partners.

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Zavi Apfelbaum

Senior Head of Brand Management at Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Zavi is Senior Head of Brand Management section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been part of the Brand Israel team from the start and manages a variety of projects promoting Israel in the world. She is also a successful artist, having exhibited on and offline in various galleries and museums in Israel and abroad. Zavi’s lectures focus on the efforts to rebrand Israel taken on by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2005.

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