Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil, St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford; Professor of Politics, Founding Director of the Middle East Study Centre (MESC), University of Hull, and Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Raphael taught, inter alia, at Oxford (UK), Jerusalem, Haifa (Israel), UCLA, Johns Hopkins (USA) and Nirma University (India). He was also Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. In 2022, he was a Public PolicyFellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Raphael has published extensively in the fields of politics, philosophy, media ethics, medical ethics, law, sociology, history and poetry, including most recently Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (CUP, 2015), Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (CUP, 2021) and The Republic, Secularism and Security(Springer, 2022). He is now writing Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Raphael was the founder or co-founder of Israel’s “Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance” Organization, University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies, and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think-tank.