Curriculum Vitae
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Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel.
Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in
training and education units.
Education
Completed a few semesters in the Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) -
Pacific Western University, California, USA.
Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and
International Trading.
Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench.
Certified in Psychological Counselling Techniques by
Brainbench.
Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench.
Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English.
Business Experience
1980 to 1983
Founder and co-owner of a chain of computerised
information kiosks in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1982 to 1985
Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of
Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and
APROFIM SA):
- Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's
Headquarters in Switzerland
- Manager of the Research and Analysis Division
- Manager of the Data Processing Division
- Project Manager of the Nigerian Computerised Census
- Vice President in charge of RND and Advanced
Technologies
- Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing
1985 to 1986
Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel.
1986 to 1987
General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm
financed international multi-lateral countertrade and
leasing transactions.
1988 to 1990
Co-founder and Director of "Mikbats-Tesuah", a portfolio
management firm based in Tel-Aviv.
Activities included large-scale portfolio management,
underwriting, forex trading and general financial advisory
services.
1990 to Present
Freelance consultant to many of Israel's Blue-Chip firms,
mainly on issues related to the capital markets in Israel,
Canada, the UK and the USA.
Consultant to foreign RND ventures and to Governments
on macro-economic matters.
Freelance journalist in various media in the United States.
1990 to 1995
President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World
Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel
representative of the "Washington Times".
1993 to 1994
Co-owner and Director of many business enterprises:
- The Omega and Energy Air-Conditioning Concern
- AVP Financial Consultants
- Handiman Legal Services
Total annual turnover of the group: 10 million USD.
Co-owner, Director and Finance Manager of COSTI Ltd.
- Israel's largest computerised information vendor and
developer. Raised funds through a series of private
placements locally in the USA, Canada and London.
1993 to 1996
Publisher and Editor of a Capital Markets Newsletter
distributed by subscription only to dozens of subscribers
countrywide.
In a legal precedent in 1995 - studied in business schools
and law faculties across Israel - was tried for his role in
an attempted takeover of Israel's Agriculture Bank.
Was interned in the State School of Prison Wardens.
Managed the Central School Library, wrote, published
and lectured on various occasions.
Managed the Internet and International News Department
of an Israeli mass media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and
Namer".
Assistant in the Law Faculty in Tel-Aviv University (to
Prof. S.G. Shoham).
1996 to 1999
Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia,
Russia and the Czech Republic.
Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija",
"Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i
Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence",
"Central Europe Review", and other periodicals, and in
the economic programs on various channels of
Macedonian Television.
Chief Lecturer in courses in Macedonia organised by the
Agency of Privatization, by the Stock Exchange, and by
the Ministry of Trade.
1999 to 2002
Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of
Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance.
2001 to 2003
Senior Business Correspondent for United Press
International (UPI).
2007
Associate Editor, Global Politician
Founding Analyst, The Analyst Network
Contributing Writer, The American Chronicle Media
Group
Web and Journalistic Activities
Author of extensive Web sites in:
- Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") - An Open
Directory Cool Site,
- Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"),
- Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict and
Transition").
Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study List and the
Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6000
members).
Owner of the Economies in Conflict and Transition Study
List , the Toxic Relationships Study List, and the Link and
Factoid Study List.
Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern
Europe categories in various Web directories (Open
Directory, Search Europe, Mentalhelp.net).
Editor of the Personality Disorders, Narcissistic
Personality Disorder, the Verbal and Emotional Abuse,
and the Spousal (Domestic) Abuse and Violence topics on
Suite 101 and Bellaonline.
Columnist and commentator in "The New Presence",
United Press International (UPI), InternetContent,
eBookWeb, PopMatters, Global Politician, eBookNet.org,
and "Central Europe Review".
Publications and Awards
"Managing Investment Portfolios in States of
Uncertainty", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv, 1988
"The Gambling Industry", Limon Publishers, Tel-Aviv,
1990
"Requesting My Loved One - Short Stories", Yedioth
Aharonot, Tel-Aviv, 1997
"The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of
Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje,
1998-2004
"The Macedonian Economy at a Crossroads - On the Way
to a Healthier Economy" (dialogues with Nikola
Gruevski), Skopje, 1998
"The Exporters' Pocketbook", Ministry of Trade, Republic
of Macedonia, Skopje, 1999
"Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited", Narcissus
Publications, Prague and Skopje, 1999-2007 (Read
excerpts - click here)
The Narcissism Series (e-books regarding relationships
with abusive narcissists), Skopje, 1999-2007
"After the Rain - How the West Lost the East", Narcissus
Publications in association with Central Europe
Review/CEENMI, Prague and Skopje, 2000
Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council
of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The
Rotary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the
Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American
Embassy in Israel (1978).
Hundreds of professional articles in all fields of finances
and the economy, and numerous articles dealing with
geopolitical and political economic issues published in
both print and Web periodicals in many countries.
Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in
philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic
matters.
Contact Details:
palma@unet.com.mk
My Web Sites:
Economy / Politics:
http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/
Psychology:
http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html
Philosophy:
http://philosophos.tripod.com/
Poetry:
http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html
After the Rain
How the West
Lost the East
The Book
This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia,
in Egypt and in the Czech Republic.
How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the
conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet - it is all
here, in colourful and provocative prose.
From "The Mind of Darkness":
"'The Balkans' - I say - 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop to digest this
metaphor and then they nod enthusiastically. It is here that the repressed memories of
history, its traumas and fears and images reside. It is here that the psychodynamics of
humanity - the tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East, Judeo-
Christianity and Islam - is still easily discernible. We are seated at a New Year's dining
table, loaded with a roasted pig and exotic salads. I, the Jew, only half foreign to this
cradle of Slavonics. Four Serbs, five Macedonians. It is in the Balkans that all ethnic
distinctions fail and it is here that they prevail anachronistically and atavistically.
Contradiction and change the only two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of
the Balkan - buried under provocative mask-like make up, retro hairstyles and too
narrow dresses. The men, clad in sepia colours, old fashioned suits and turn of the
century moustaches. In the background there is the crying game that is Balkanian
music: liturgy and folk and elegy combined. The smells are heavy with muskular
perfumes. It is like time travel. It is like revisiting one's childhood."