Yehezkel Dror

Yehezkel Dror is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From 2002 to 2008 he served as Founding President of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute.

He has fulfilled senior positions in Israeli governments, including two years as full time Senior Policy Planning Advisor in the Office of the Minister of Defense, advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers and the Israeli Cabinet Office, chairman and member of public commissions dealing with various policy issues and more.

He has been active as an international consultant on policy planning, capacities to govern and statecraft in more than thirty countries, on behalf of UN bodies, OECD, the European Union and at the invitations of governments.

Professor Dror has served worked two years at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California and two years advising on European Union policy issues at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht. He was a Fellow at major Institutes of Advanced Study, including in Berling, Palo Alto, New York and Washington D.C. Honorary Member of the Club of Rome and former member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London.

He published many articles and fifteen books in twelve languages, including among others: Public Policymaking Reexamined; Policmaking Under Adversity; Crazy States: A Counterconventional Security Problem; and The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome. His most recent book Political-Security Statecraft for Israel was published in June 2009 in Hebew and is being prepared for publication in English.

Among other distinctions, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received a number of awards from the Policy Studies Association. In 1999 he received the Israeli Anniversary Arthur Ruppin Prize from Haifa Municipality for his contributions to public policy; in 2002 the annual Landau Prize for outstanding contributions to the social sciences; and in 2005 the Israel Prize for his contributions to the theory and practice of strategic planning and policy making.

He served as a member of the Winograd Committee investigating the performance of the government and of the defense bodies in the Second Lebanon War.

His most recent books include AVANT-GARDE POLITICIAN: LEADERS FOR A NEW EPOCH, FOR RULERS: PRIMING POLITICAL LEADERS FOR SAVING HUMANITY FROM ITSELF, and STEERING HUMAN EVOLUTION: EIGHTEEN THESES ON HOMO SAPIENS METAMORPHOSIS.

Home office phone 972-2-5891147; e-Mail: >Yehezkel.dror@mail.huji.ac.il<.