Prof. ERAN VIGODA-GADOT is the Head of the School of Political Sciences and Head of the Center for Public Management and Policy (CPMP) at the University of Haifa.

With major expertise in Public Administration, Public Management, and Organizational Behavior Vigoda-Gadot is the author and coauthor of more than 130 articles and book chapters, 8 books and symposiums as well as many other scholarly presentations and working papers. Received his Ph.D. from the University of Haifa (1998) and spent time as a visiting professor in Britain (Chevening Scholarship), Ireland (National University-Cork - Department of Government), Canada (McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management), and the USA (University of Georgia - Department of Public Administration & Policy, Harvard Kennedy School - Ash Center for Democratic Governance & Innovation, University of Massachusetts, Boston - McCormack Center for Public Management) .

Current research interests include:

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management in Public Administration;

Organizational Politics;

Political Behavior and Citizens' Role in Governance;

Public Sector Reforms and Performance;

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB);

New Public Management (NPM);

Cross-Sector Collaboration;

Innovation and Reforms in Public Administration;

Statistics & Methodology in the Social Sciences;

"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. Then Jews will come from everywhere: From France, from Russia, from America, from Yamen… Their faith is their passport."

David Ben-Gurion