Dr. Efraim Ben-Zadok Florida Atlantic University School of Public Administration 111 East Las Olas Boulevard, HEC 1008F Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Telephone: (954) 762-5678 E-mail: benzadok@fau.edu

Efraim Ben-Zadok completed his undergraduate work in political science and sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  During his military service, he also served as a liaison officer to the International Red Cross in Tel-Aviv.  As a graduate student in New York in the 1970s, he worked at the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, the Israeli General Consulate in New York, John Jay College, and New York University.  He received his M.P.A. and Ph.D. (1980) degrees from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.  Dr. Ben-Zadok began his academic career as Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv University and thereafter at the State University of New York.  Currently, he is Professor of Public Administration in the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs at Florida Atlantic University (FAU).  Since he came to FAU in 1989, he has served as Director of the Ph.D. Program for the School of Public Administration; Director of Graduate Studies for the College; Co-Director of the Florida-Israel Institute--a Florida State University System international linkage institute; and a visiting scholar at the Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, University of Amsterdam. 

Dr. Ben-Zadok is a student of urban, regional, and national policies who traveled by foot, bus, and train throughout almost all countries in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and some countries in South Pacific and North Africa.  His fields of interest include: public policy analysis, implementation, and evaluation; comparative public policy; urban and regional policy and planning; and environmental growth management and community sustainability.  He published numerous journal articles and book chapters about urban, regional, and national policies in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Turkey, Israel, and Ghana.  His current theoretical interest focuses on evaluation of state-regional-local policies and on decision-making processes in long-range large-scale urban and regional policies.  He brings international and comparative literature to his courses followed by case studies and examples from his own experiences.   

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