Zvi Lanir, PhD, is the founding president of the Praxis Institute which, for over 30 years, has specialised in various aspects of coping with disruptive change in personal, social, economic and strategic domains. During the past 15 years, Dr Lanir has conducted interdisciplinary research to reveal the gaps between the common knowledge on ageing and the new opportunities for living our advanced years differently. Dr Lanir is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces' Command and Staff College. He has a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a visiting scholar at New York's Columbia University.
