Yehezkel Dror

Yehezkel Dror (Hebrew: יחזקאל דרור‎‎; born 1928) is a former professor of political science at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Dror was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and emigrated to the Mandate Palestine with his family in 1938.

He was a member of the university's Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University from 1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, public administration, capacities to govern, leadership and security issues with publications including Public Policy-making Re-examined, Design for Policy Sciences, "Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome" and Israeli Statecraft: National Security Challenges and Responses.

Dror holds a B.A. and Magister Juris from Hebrew University, and LLM and SJD (doctor of juridical sciences) qualifications from Harvard University. Outside academia he served as a senior consultant on policy-making and planning for the Israeli government, and founded the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. He engaged in international consultantship, serving inter alia from 1968-70 as a senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation.

• In 1965, Dror received the Rosolio Prize.
• In 2005, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for management.

• "Speakers". Herzliya Conference. 
• Eldar, Akiva (18 April 2007). "Endgame in Damascus and Gaza". Ha'aretz. 
• Israel Prize Judges’ Rationale for the Award to Y. Dror (in Hebrew) Israel Prize official website