Yehezkel Dror

From The Space Library

Yehezkel Dror is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since February 2002 he has served as Founding President of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. He has filled senior positions in Israeli governments, including two years as full time Senior Policy Planning Advisor in the Office of the Minister of Defense, consultancy for a number of Prime Ministers, advisor of the Israeli Cabinet Office, chairman and member of public commissions dealing with various policy issues.

Professor Dror has served as policy planner, strategic consultant and senior professor in many countries, including two years with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California and two years working 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 Berlin, Palo Alto, New York and Washington D.C. Former member of the Club of Rome and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

He has published many articles and fifteen books in seven languages, including: Public Policymaking Reexamined; Crazy States: A Counterconventional Security Problem; A Grand-Strategy for Israel (in Hebrew); and, most recently, The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome; and Epistle to an Israeli Jewish-Zionist Leader (in Hebrew).

He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and has 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 original contributions to policy making; in 2002 the annual Landau Prize for outstanding contributions to the social sciences; and in 2005 the Israel Prize in administrative sciences for his contributions to the theory and practice of strategic planning and policy making.