Meir Zadok

Executive Director, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem

Meir Zadok is the CEO of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem, and has
been active in the development and administration of science policy in Israel for the last 40 years.
He was among the founders of the University Grants Committee (UGC) and the Israel Science
Foundation (ISF), and was a member of many national committees dealing with science policy
and higher education issues.

Zadok holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Lancaster University and was a recipient of
the Rothschild Fellowship. He served as a research associate at the Center for Studies in Higher
Education in Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Among his publications are:
‘Funding Higher Education and Research in Israel’ (2009) (in Hebrew) and The Future of the
Research University (ed.) (2000).

At SCAS, he will study the implications of funding as a science policy tool.