Organizing team

Eli Cook is a Senior Lecturer in the General History Department at the University of Haifa in Israel and head of the American Studies Program. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2013. He is an intellectual, cultural and economic historian of American and global capitalism. 

Roni Hirsch is a senior lecturer in government and political theory in the School of Political Sciences at Haifa University. She works on the history of economic thought, market regulation, and the politics of risk.

Michal Koreh is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa. She is a political economist who studies welfare state development and restructuring, institutional change, and welfare state financing.

Erez Maggor is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He received his PhD from New York University in 2020. Maggor specializes in the political economy of industrial policy, innovation, and state-aid conditionality.

Ronen Mandelkern is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He is a political economist who studies the ideational and institutional foundations of economic liberalization and neoliberalism in Israel and other advanced economies.

Reut Marciano is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the School of Public Policy and Governance and the PPE (Philosophy, Political Science and Economics) program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2023. She studies the state and policy-making in Neoliberal and managerial contexts.