Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors s h lo m o a v i n e r i , Professor ofPolitical Science at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem, was a member ofthe Egyptian-Israeli Commission, which negotiated the Cultural, Scientific and Educational Agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1979. In 1996 he received the Israel Prize, the country’s highest civilian decoration. His most recent book is an intellectual biography ofTheodore Herzl (in Hebrew). m a r k u s b a u m a n n s is Executive Vice President ofthe Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius ZEITFoundation. He is also Chairman ofthe Executive Board ofBucerius Law School. He is a frequent speaker in Germany and abroad on reforming German and European public higher education. He has published extensively on the reform ofhigher education in Germany and the internationalization of legal education in Germany. k u r t b ie d e n k o p f is former Prime Minister ofthe Free State of Saxony and Chairman ofthe Board ofTrustees of the Hertde School of Governance. He is the founding President ofDresden International University and Chairman of the Board ofTrustees ofthe Hertie School ofGovernance. c r a i g c a l h o u n is President ofthe Social Science Research Council and University Professor ofthe Social Sciences at New York University. He is the author ofthe prizewinning Neither GodsNorEmperors: Studentsand the StruggleforDemocracyin China (1994) and other books, including Lessons ofEmpire (2005), and editor-in-chief ofthe OxfordDictionaryoftheSocialSciences. J o n a t h a n r . c o le is the John Mitchell Mason Professor ofthe University at Columbia University, where he was Provost and Dean of Faculties from 19892003 . His publications in the sociology of science, science policy, and higher educa­ tion include The GreatAmerican University: ItsRisetoPreeminence, Its ThreatenedFuture (forthcoming, 2010). y e h u d a e lk a n a is President and Rector ofthe Central European University in Budapest. A former Director ofthe Van LeerJerusalem Institute and a former Vice President ofthe Academic Advisory Board ofthe Collegium Budapest, he is a cofounder and editor ofthe journal Sciencein Context and the author ofmany books and articles. b o b k e r r e y is President ofthe New School. He served as the Democratic Governor and two-term Senator of Nebraska, and is the author of When I Was a YoungMan:A Memoir (2002). He also served as a member ofthe 9/11 Commission, and as co-chair with Newt Gingrich on the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care. h a n s - p e t e r k r ü g e r is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Speaker of the Ph.D. program in Life Forms and Forms of Knowing How at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His recent publica­ tions include PhilosophischeAnthropologie alsLebenspolitik. Deutsch-jüdischeund pragmatistischeModemekritik and Gehirn, Verhaltenund Zeit. DerForschungsrahmen der PhilosophischenAnthropologie (both 2009). b e n ja m in le e is University Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy and Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the New School. He is also currently directing the New School’s international programs and partnerships with a special focus on East Asia, and continues his research on the culture(s) offinance and the semiotics of subjectivity. a n a t o i i m i k h a ilo v is the founder and Rector ofthe European Humanities University (EHU). A respected expert on German philosophy and a recipient of the French Palmes Académiques and German Goethe Medal, he has been in exile in Vilnius since 2004, when the Lukashenko regime closed EHU in Belarus. The university reopened in Vilnius in 2005, where it remains. a l a n r y a n , Visiting Professor ofPolitics at Princeton University, was Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1996-2009. A recognized authority on John Stuart Mill, his academic work also takes in broader themes in political theoiy, including the philosophy of social science, the nature ofproperty, and liberalism ofthe nine­ teenth and twentieth centuries. ...