YEHEZKEL DROR

BACKGROUND
Dror was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and emigrated to the Mandate Palestine with his family in
1938.
He was a member of the university's Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University from
1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a
pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, public administration, capacities to
govern, leadership and security issues with publications including Public Policy-making Reexamined, Design for Policy Sciences, "Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome" and Israeli
Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses.
Dror holds a B.A. and Magister Juris from Hebrew University, and LLM and SJD (doctor of juridical
sciences) qualifications from Harvard University. Outside academia he served as a senior consultant
on policy-making and planning for the Israeli government, and founded the Jewish People Policy
Planning Institute.[2] He engaged in international consultantship, serving inter alia from 1968-70 as a
senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation.

CONTRIBUTIONS TOWORDS PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION

He was a member of the university's Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University from
1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a
pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, public administration, capacities to
govern, leadership and security issues with publications including Public Policy-making Reexamined, Design for Policy Sciences, "Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome" and Israeli
Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses

SIGNFICANT WRITING/ ARTICLE

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

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His most recent boo, published in April 2014, is AVANT-GARDE POLITICIAN: LEADERS FOR A NEW
EPOCH. It deals with the metamorphosis into which humanity is cascading, ways to cope with fateful
challenges and the new type of political leaders essential for doing so..