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Executive Committee of Mandel Foundation-Israel
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Varda Shiffer, President
Dr. Varda Shiffer is the President of the Mandel Foundation-Israel. She established the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev and directed the Center from 2004 until the end of 2009. Previously, she directed the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, served as Chief Scientist of the Civil Service Commission and was in charge of the audit of the education system at the State Comptroller’s Office. Dr. Shiffer is a lecturer in the MBA Social Leadersip Program at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and was the editor of the periodical “Civil Society and Third Sector in Israel”. Dr. Shiffer is a member of the ethics in public organizations committee at the Israel Institute for Ethics and sits on the International Council of the New Israel Fund. Previously, she served as member of the Board of Directors and chairperson of the Grants Committee of the New Israel Fund. Dr. Shiffer has published articles on civil society in Israel, on the right to education in closed communities and on education in the Haredi Community in Israel.
Eli Gottlieb, Vice-President and Director, Mandel Leadership Institute
 Dr. Gottlieb is Vice President of the Mandel Foundation – Israel and Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in the Psychology of Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Gottlieb has served as a visiting professor in Cognitive Studies in Education at the University of Washington, an adjunct lecturer at the School of Education at the Hebrew University and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research examines the relations between cognition, identity and education.
Pierre Kletz, Vice-President, Mandel Foundation-Israel; Graduates and Director of Social Leadership MBA at Ben Gurion University
Prof. Pierre Kletz, Vice-President, Mandel Foundation-Israel; Graduates and Director of Social Leadership MBA at Ben Gurion University. He received his doctorate from HEC School of Management-Paris. He holds accreditation to supervise research from the Sorbonne. He has held the position of Academic Director of the Eastern and Central Europe Centre of HEC and, later on, was the Special Academic Advisor of the Director General of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Before joining Mandel Foundation, he was an Associate Professor at the University Francois Rabelais (France) where he served as founding director of the Masters of Public Management program. Pierre has published numerous articles about organizational theory in major research journals. He has received the Award for Excellence in 2002 for an "outstanding contribution" to the Journal of Management Development.
Mordecai Nisan, Head of Academic Faculty
 Prof. Nisan is the Head of the Academic Faculty of the Mandel Foundation-Israel, Founder and the Head of Mandel Scholars in Education Program. Previously he served as the Academic Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute. He also directed the Mandel School for Educational Leadership, the IDF Educational Leadership Development Program and the Mandel Fellowship for Educational Researchers Program. Prof. Nisan is a developmental psychologist who served as Dean of the School of Education at the Hebrew University and as a member of the Council for Higher Education. His areas of research, on which he has written extensively, include moral development and behavior and human motivation.
Jacob (Yankale) Steinberg, Advocate, Director of the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev, practiced law in the fields of ethics of public systems and criminal justice, mainly as a staff member of the Israeli Securities Authority Enforcement Division. In addition to his legal practice, he was involved in the development of technological systems for regulation and enforcement in the capital market. Jacob also participated in the establishment of educational and socially-oriented initiatives, as a consultant, advisor and as a team member. He served as the policy consultant of the department for gifted children at the Ministry of Education and as the coordinator of the sub-committee for communities and sectors of the Dovrat committee. As a part of his public voluntary activity, Jacob initiated activities designed to promote financial and legal literacy and social entrepreneurship among youth and marginalized groups, such as refugees and illegal immigrants. Jacob Steinberg joined the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev as Co-Director shortly after its establishment. He is a graduate of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership at Mandel Leadership Institute, in Jerusalem.
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