David Levi-Faur is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interest are public policies, regulation, global goverance and comparative political economy. He is also a founding editor of Regulation & Governance, a Willey-Blackwell's journal, that aims to serve as a leading platform for the study of regulation and governance in the social sciences. He was visiting professor at London School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and University of California Berkeley, among others. David is visiting professor at IBEI in the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Programme.