Ambassador Ido Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign Service and Israel’s longest-serving Consul General in New York and the tri-state area, holding the rank of Ambassador from 2010 to 2016. Ido is a co-founder of the consultancy Emerson Rigby, co-founder and principal at the British-Israeli investment firm EA2K, and a member of the International Advisory Council for APCO Worldwide, Value Base, MasterCard, and The Libra Group. Since 2015, he has been a Member of the Board of Governors at Tel Aviv University.