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Dr. Leslie Alexander Pal

Professor and Founding Dean, College of Public Policy, HBKU at Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Major works

  • Pal (2021). Informing Action: Higher Education Countering Violent Extremism. Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press.
  • Pal et al. (2020). Beyond Policy Analysis: Public Issue Management in Turbulent Times (6th Ed.). Toronto: Nelson Education.

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About me

Dr. Leslie A. Pal, Professor and Founding Dean of the College of Public Policy at HBKU has served as a consultant to the Open Society Foundations, the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as several other international organizations. He has published over ninety articles and book chapters in a variety of areas of public policy and administration, and international public management reform.

Dr. Pal was the Executive Editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis from 2015 to 2020 and is currently a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Public Policy. He has served as both the Vice-President and the Treasurer of the International Public Policy Association and is on the Board of the Association for Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration (AMEPPA).