Moshe Justman is professor of economics and dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ruppin Academic Center, and professor emeritus of economics and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and an MSc in Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. His main areas of research include the economics of education, broadly defined; the economics of innovation and technology policy; and regional development. He has held visiting positions at Carnegie Mellon University, China People's University (Renda) in Beijing, Autonoma University in Barcelona, and the University of Melbourne. He has conducted applied research and consulted for the Israel Ministries of Education, Industry and Trade, Labor and Welfare, and the Interior; for the Jewish Agency; for the Ohio Science and Technology Commission; and for the Victoria Department of Education. He is a past president of the Israel Economics Association.