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Home Education City Speaker SeriesDr. Leslie A. Pal
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Dr. Leslie A. Pal

Dean of the College of Public Policy, HBKU

Leslie A. Pal is Founding Dean of the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. He is the author, co-author or editor of over thirty books, the most recent of which is Informing Action: Higher Education Countering Violent Extremism (2021).

He was the Executive Editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis from 2015-2020, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the International Review of Public Policy and the Journal of Economic Policy Reform. In January 2020 he was elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the International Public Policy Association. He is also on the Board of the Association for Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration (AMEPPA).