Dr. Avichai (Avi) Rapaport

Dr. Avichai (Avi) Rapaport is the founder and investment manager of RapFlag hedge fund where he invests all his private capital. He brings twenty years experience in the financial markets and worked as adviser to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the UBS Group in Zurich. Dr. Rapaport teaches at the University of Zurich an unconstrained course titled Money & Banking. He holds a PhD in financial economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Department of Economics (his thesis was supervised by Nobel laureates Eugene Fama and Lars Hansen) as well as a BA from Tel Aviv University with highest distinction. Avi served in the Israeli Air Force as a Flight Controller in a Control Tower.