Policy Impact

My research is aimed at practice as much as at the academic literature - informing funding-formula reform, advising governments, and shaping international policy frameworks. See also: Media.

International leadership

  • National Education Finance Academy (NEFA) - Board of Trustees (2024–2027 term); Distinguished Research & Practice Fellow (2014), for outstanding contribution to the research of education finance.
  • UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report - PEER initiative: reviewer for Israel’s “Financing for Equity” country profiles across pre-primary, primary/secondary, and higher education.
  • Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Economics and Finance of Education SIG: Founder and Chair of the research group. SIG history · current SIG page
  • Forum on Economic Aspects of Education Policy, Bar-Ilan University - Founder and Chair (2023–present)
  • Contributor to the World Bank’s Equity Report; my funding-formula research directly informed a reform by Israel’s Ministry of Education. Invited speaker at a US investment summit hosted by the Obama administration, and keynote speaker at China’s Belt and Road Initiative higher education forum.

National Consulting

Recent examples:

  • 2020 - Measuring Improvement in Educational Outcomes: Developing a Multi-Facet Approach, with the Israel Science Foundation’s Initiative for Applied Education Research.
  • 2019 - Developing a Diversity Index for Public Schools, with the Israel Science Foundation’s Initiative for Applied Education Research.

The Israeli Parliament (Knesset), Education Committee - invited testimony:

  • Education, Resource Allocation, and Poverty - October 19, 2010
  • Education Finance Policy, Equity, and Child Poverty - November 11, 2014

Also advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Education, Budget Department (2026).

International Consulting

Recent examples:

Talks & presentations

  • “Education as a Development Strategy for the State of Israel” (חינוך כאסטרטגיה לפיתוח של מדינת ישראל) - keynote at כנס עתיד החינוך (Future of Education Conference), Histadrut HaMorim & Amutat HaMorim, Aug 24, 2026. Argues for reframing education spending as national development infrastructure rather than a budget line to be trimmed, and lays out a four-part “Middle-Line Model” policy proposal: a real pay floor for all teachers, career-long development pathways, differentiated need-based resource allocation, and dedicated in-school professional workspace and time. Download the slides (PDF) →