Prof. Israel Shaked

Dr. Israel Shaked is a founder and managing director of The Michel-Shaked Group in Boston, where he provides valuation, expert testimony, corporate finance and business consulting services to corporations and government entities worldwide. He is also a professor of finance and economics at the Boston University Questrom School of Management and a two-time winner of Boston University?s Broderick Prize for Excellence in Teaching. His academic and professional research covers such areas as valuation, bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, investment analysts, financial distress, LBOs, international business, mergers and acquisitions, economics, corporate structure analysis, corporate financial decisions and capital markets. Dr. Shaked was director of the Boston Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Examination Review Program for 19 years, as well as a co-founder and director of the Institute of Chartered Pension Professionals (ICPP). He served for 20 years as a member of the ABI Journal editorial board and a contributing editor. He has also authored or co-authored numerous articles and several books, including A Practical Guide to Bankruptcy Valuation, Second Edition (ABI 2016), and he appears regularly on television and in the press commenting on contemporary financial and business issues. Dr. Shaked has delivered hundreds of seminars to corporate executives and law firms globally, and has been engaged as an expert witness offering testimony at depositions, arbitrations and trials on numerous cases. He is renowned and relied on for his expertise in valuation matters, and his ability to explain the complexities of valuation clearly to a judge, jury, arbitrator or regulatory authority. Mr. Shaked received a B.A. in economics and a B.A. in statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) from Harvard Business School.