Michael Laitman, Professor of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics.
He is founder and president of the ARI Institute and Bnei Baruch Education and Research Institute, international organizations with branches all over North America and Canada, Central and South America, as well as Eastern and Western Europe.
On his website, www.kab.info, he teaches free live daily lessons to an audience of around two million people worldwide, simultaneously broadcasted and translated into eight languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, French, Turkish, and German.
Dr. Laitman received his PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his MSc in Medical Cybernetics from the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. He has published over forty books, translated into 17 languages, including Chinese, Arabic and Persian.
His extensive contributions to the field led to his receiving the title of Professor in Ontology and Theory of Knowledge, granted by the Highest Interdisciplinary Academic Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
Laitman closely collaborates with numerous international research institutions. As part of this activity, he has been invited to join the World Wisdom Council (WWC), a think-tank convened by the Club of Budapest and headed by Prof. Ervin Laszlo, a Nobel Prize nominee in 2004 and 2005.
In recent years, he has participated in several international events with the WWC and the Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Arosa (Switzerland), Düsseldorf (Germany), and the Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey (Mexico), organized with the support of UNESCO. The goal in all these events was to engage in a deep dialogue about the worldwide crisis and to bring about a positive shift in global consciousness. An awakening on the integral dependency of all nature’s parts, the common challenges that humanity is facing to achieve peace and sustainability, and to start a new direction together, regardless gender and religious, political or cultural considerations.
Laitman’s articles and interviews have appeared on important media outlets such as Il Corriere della Sera, Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and Bloomberg TV, among others.
He is married, father of three and grandfather of three.