Yair Tauman

Yair Tauman was born in 1948

Yair Tauman was born on January 20, 1948. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a first degree in mathematics and statistics and advanced degrees in mathematics. Robert Aumann supervised his master's and doctoral work, and through him Tauman became interested in game theory.

His research covers game theory and industrial organization. He taught at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University, at Tel Aviv University and at the State University of New York. In 1981 he published the book Game Theory with Robert Aumann and Shmuel Zamir, and since 1989 he has helped organize a yearly game theory conference in New York.

In January 2010 he became dean of the business school at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, now Reichman University, where he also founded a school of entrepreneurship. In 2005 he organized Israeli investors who bought shares in the British auction company QXL, which was sold in 2007 for $1.9 billion. Since 2011 he has been a director of Bank Hapoalim, and in 2019 a Tel Aviv court fined him with other directors over loans to Nochi Dankner.

Tauman produced a documentary about his sister, My Sister Tikva. His daughter is the cryptographer Yael Tauman Kalai.