Ira S. Nordlicht ’69, JD
Consultant
Partner, Nordlicht & Hand
Ira S. Nordlicht is an investor and business consultant since retiring as the founding partner of Nordlicht & Hand, and chief executive officer and president of Alfa Wassermann, Inc. and managing director, Alfa Wassermann, B.V. (Holland), a worldwide diagnostics and separations/vaccines/gene therapy company. He continues as a director of Alfa Wassermann, Inc. and serves or has served as a director of various public and private companies and non-profit institutions for many years.
Nordlicht is a member of the Advisory Board and Strategic Committee for Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at New York University School of Law and founder of The Nordlicht Family Law and Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship at NYU School of Law for need-based individuals interested in entering this field.
He has also established graduate scholarships in computational medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s world-renowned program and need-based scholarship grants at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ groundbreaking interdisciplinary TRUST program, which provides pharmacy, nursing, medical, social services and the like to rural and underserved communities through interprofessional teamwork.
After obtaining his bachelor's degree in economics at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ’s Harpur College in 1969 and graduating NYU Law School in 1972, Nordlicht served at the Federal Trade Commission, in various positions with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and practiced law in New York prior to establishing his own firm.