Itzhak Galnoor  is the Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Visiting Professor at many international universities, and served on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association. He edited Advances in Political Science, (Cambridge University Press). From 1994–96, he was Head of the Civil Service Commission in Itzhak Rabin's Government. Since 2007 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Academic Director of the State Responsibility and the Limits of Privatization project at the Chazan Center for Social Justice.