Yehezkel Dror

Yehezkel Dror
Born	1928 Vienna
Alma mater	Hebrew University, Harvard University
Known for	Public Policy-making
Awards	Rosolio Award (1965), Israel Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Political Science, Policy Planning, Strategic Issues
Institutions	Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Yehezkel Dror (Hebrew: יחזקאל דרור; born 1928) is a former professor of political science at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Biography

Dror was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and emigrated to the Mandate Palestine with his family in 1938. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1946.

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 Re-examined, 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. He engaged in international consultantship, serving inter alia from 1968-70 as a senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation.

Awards

• In 1965, Dror received the Rosolio Prize.
• In 2005, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for management.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

External links

• Yehezkel Dror Biography on PIWP database
• Articles by Yehezkel Dror
• Yehezkel Dror's Books
• Yehezkel Dror
• Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Yehezkel Dror (in Hebrew)
• Interview with Yehezkel Dror by Ofir Kafri at The Global Scholar Knowledge Initiative (GSKI)