Alex Mintz

Professor Alex Mintz (; born April 2, 1953), Director of the Computerized Decision Making Lab, and former Provost of IDC Herzliya, is a professor for decision-making in government, and former President of the Israeli Political Science Association.

Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Israeli Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign-Policy section of the International Studies Association, and the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Studies Association for most significant contribution to the field of International Relations by a scholar younger than 40. His book on decision-making in the American government (with C. Wayne) was published in 2016 by the prestigious Stanford University Press and received the 2017 Alexander George Best Book Award of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP).

Professor Mintz has served on the editorial boards of 11 international journals, including the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Perspective, Open Political Science Journal, Advances in Political Psychology, and Research and Politics. He served as editor-in-chief of the international journal, Political Psychology (2010-2015), as Associate Editor of the Yale-based Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004-2009), and as editor of the University of Chicago Press book series in Leadership and Decision Making in the International Arena (until 2012).

Professor Mintz is also the Director of the [https://www.idc.ac.il/en/schools/government/research/popdm/Pages/home.aspx Program in Political Psychology and Decision Making (POPDM)] at the IDC. He served as a co-chair of the steering committee for the project "Israeli Hope: Toward a New Israeli Order", with the blessings of the President of Israel. He served as Chair of the [http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/?CategoryID=536 Herzliya Conference series] and as Director of the [http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/ Institute for Policy and Strategy] from 2013 to 2016 and as Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC from 2008 to 2014. Provided by Wikipedia