Dr. Amnon Cavari (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a senior lecturer and chair of the MA program in public policy and political marketing at the Lauder School of Government at IDC Herzliya. Amnon specializes in the inter-relationship between public opinion and public policy in the United States and Israel. He is the head of American Public Opinion toward Israel (APOI), a research group that tracks trends in American elite and mass opinion toward Israel; and is co-chair of the Israeli Policy Agendas Project, which assesses comparatively the policy agenda of political actors and institutions in Israel.
Dr. Maoz Rosenthal is a senior lecturer at the Lauder school for government, diplomacy and strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. Dr. Rosenthal held visiting positions at SUNY Binghamton and Yale University. Dr. Rosenthal earned his degrees at the Political Science department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Rosenthal's research deals with political strategy, governability, minority representation, and judicial politics.
Dr. Ilana Shpaizman is a lecturer at the Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University. Her research focuses on public policy. Specifically, her work examines various conditions for the evolution of gradual transformative policy changes, policy non-decisions and the effect cabinet ministers have on the agenda in their ministries. She is the co-chair of the Israeli Policy Agendas Project, which assesses comparatively the policy agenda of political actors and institutions in Israel.
Dr. Gilad Greenwald holds a PhD (2018) from Bar-Ilan University’s School of Communication, where he also serves as a Teaching Associate. His main research interests center around Political Communication and Gender. Gilad is a Project Manager and Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Israeli Policy Agendas Project.
Prof. David Levi-Faur is Prof. at the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a founding editor of Regulation & Governance, a Willey-Blackwell's journal, that aims to serve as a leading platform for the study of regulation and governance in the social sciences. He held research and teaching positions at the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, the Australian National University, the University of Manchester and the Freie Universität Berlin. He held visiting positions in the London School of Economics, the University of Amsterdam, University of Utrecht and University of California (Berkeley). He currently works on a book manuscript "Regulating Capitalism" to be published by Princeton University Press. His work includes special issues of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism, co-edited with Jacint Jordana) and Governance (Varieties of Regulatory Capitalism). More recently he acted as editor of the he Oxford Handbook of Governance (OUP, 2012) and The Handbook of the Politics of Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2011).
Nir Kosti is a PhD candidate in the Political Science department, and a fellow in the Advanced Graduate Studies Program ("Telem") in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His researches focus on the interplay between legislation, regulation and comparative politics. His PhD research examines the legislative and regulatory production of Israel and the United Kingdom. Nir holds B.A and M.A degrees (with honors) in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been recently awarded the 2019 President of Israel's Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Innovation, and the 2019 Hebrew University President’s Scholarship for Excellent Doctoral Students.
