Professor Alex Mintz is Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at International Data Corporation Herzliya.
Education
Mintz received his Bachelor of Arts from Tel Aviv University in political science with a minor in mathematics. He then went on to receive a Master of Arts from Northwestern University in political science before pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy, also at Northwestern. His research interests focus on decision making, foreign policy analysis, political marketing and research methods.
Career
He served as Chair of the Herzliya Conference series between the years 2014-2015 and as Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at International Data Corporation from 2008-2014. He also served as editor-in-chief of the international journal, Political Psychology (2010-2015), as an 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.
He then went on to receive a Master of Arts Mintz was an instructor at Northwestern University and a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He then taught at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University for 4 years before returning to Israel to become a professor at the University of Haifa. In 1993 he became the director of the program in foreign policy decision making at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical and remained there until 2005.
He was a visiting professor at Yale and Tel Aviv University. He moved to International Data Corporation Herzliya in 2006 as a professor, before becoming the dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in 2008.
Politics
Professor Mintz is editorial board member of the Journals 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.