Alexan­der Bruner is the nephew of József Debreczeni and a for­mer inter­na­tion­al man­age­ment con­sul­tant and fundrais­er. A child of Holo­caust sur­vivors from Yugoslavia, he lec­tures to edu­ca­tion­al, social, polit­i­cal and com­mu­ni­ty groups on top­ics relat­ed to Israel, the Mid­dle East, anti­semitism, and the his­to­ry of the Jew­ish peo­ple. He holds a BS in chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land and an MBA from Har­vard Busi­ness School.