Saul Singer is coau­thor of the best­selling book Start-Up Nation: The Sto­ry of Israel’s Eco­nom­ic Mir­a­cle. He is a for­mer edi­tor and colum­nist at the Jerusalem Post and has writ­ten for The Wall Street Jour­nal, The Wash­ing­ton Post, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. Singer has giv­en keynote speech­es at inno­va­tion con­fer­ences around the world includ­ing Bei­jing, Syd­ney, Sin­ga­pore, Lon­don, Madrid, Ams­ter­dam, Oslo, Nairo­bi, and Sao Paulo. Before mov­ing to Israel in 1994, he served for ten years as an advi­sor to US Mem­bers of Con­gress. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.