Curriculum Vitae (short) ERAN RAZIN May 2020 Personal Date and place of birth: September 11, 1955, Jerusalem, Israel. ID: 053619870 Marital status: Married (1982) + 3 (1984, 1988, 1991). Home address: 9/9 Rabbi Binyamin, Jerusalem 96306. University address: Department of Geography, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905. Phone: 972 2 5883351; 054 4483569 Fax: 972 2 5820549 Email: [email protected] Higher Education 1976-1979 The Hebrew Geography & B.A. (with distinction) University Economics 1977,1978,1979 Included in the Dean's List of outstanding undergraduate students. 1980-1982 The Hebrew Geography & M.A. (with Supervisor: Prof. A. Shachar University Urban and distinction) Regional Studies M.A. Thesis: The Location of Headquarters and Plants of Industrial Multi-Locational Firms in Israel, With Special Emphasis on Industry of the Development Towns. 1982-1986 The Hebrew Geography Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. A. Shachar University Ph.D. thesis: The Effect of Organizational Structure of Industry on the Development of Peripheral Towns in Israel. 1986-1987 UCLA, USA Geography Post-Doctoral Host: Prof. W.A.V. Clark Scholar Post-doctoral fellowships: The University of California Reciprocity Program & The Hebrew University. Appointments at the Hebrew University 1977-1978 Social Sciences Library 1978-1982 Research assistant, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (then part of Hebrew U.). 1980-1982 Teaching assistant, Department of Geography. 1982-1985 Assistant, Department of Geography. 1985-1986 Instructor, Department of Geography. 1987-1991 Lecturer, Department of Geography. 1991-1998 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography. 1998-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Geography. 2013- Leon Safdie Chair in Urban Studies 2015- Professor, Department of Geography Additional functions/tasks at the Hebrew University 1994-1998 Coordinator and teacher, Program of the Department of Geography in Rehovot, Faculty of Humanities. 2000-2003 Head of the Department of Geography. 2001-2002 Acting director, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. 2005-2006 Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. 2007-2018 Head, Floersheimer Studies, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. 1 2007- Member of the (physical) Program and Development Committee, The Hebrew University. 2007-2010 Senate member. 2007-2011 Member of the nominations committee (new hirings) Faculty of Social Sciences. 2007-2008 Member of the fellowships committee, Faculty of Social Sciences. 2008-2010 Member of the infrastructure committee, Faculty of Social Sciences. 2010-2018 Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (The graduate program in Urban Planning). Service in other academic and research institutions 1992-1993 Sabbatical, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa. 1983-1994 External teacher (courses on Industrial Geography and Urban and Regional Restructuring), Department of Geography, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva. 1993-2007 Senior researcher, Local Governance and Local Development Research Projects, The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies, Jerusalem. 4.1997 Scholar-in-residence, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. 8.1998-7.1999 Visiting Research Associate, Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. 11.1998 Visitor and guest lecturer at the Vancouver Centre of Excellence, Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 4.2005-7.2005 Visiting Researcher, Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (MSH), CNRS-CERVL, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France. 1.2016-3.2016 Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France (teaching a course on metropolitan planning). 8.2019-10.2019 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney Selected Other Activities 1987-2008 Chairman, Commissions of inquiry for the municipal boundaries of Dimona and Yeroham (member), Elat (member), Afula, Bet Dagan, Maalot, Ashdod, Haifa (two commissions), Qiryat Motzkin, Ramla, Rishon LeZion, Zoran, Maalot-Tarshiha (two commissions), Tirat Carmel, Carmiel-Sajur, Haifa Bay Oil Refineries area (member), Nazareth-Nazerat Illit, Ashqelon. 1988 Economic Development in Ashqelon. Report submitted to the municipality of Ashqelon. 1989-1998 Member of the board, The Israeli Regional Science Association (IRSA). 1991-1992 Member of the board, The Israeli Association of Geographers. Co-editor of Geography, The Bulletin of The Israeli Association of Geographers. 1991-1992 Coordinator, The Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Corridor Development Plan. The Hebrew University, Institute of Urban and Regional Studies. Submitted to the Ministry of Construction and Housing. The Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Region: Economy and 2 Employment. W.P. 11 (Hebrew). Report submitted as part of the project. 1993 The location of branches of the Small Business Authority in southern Israel. Consultation report. Submitted to the Small-Business Authority (with Daphna Schwartz and Daniel Felsenstein). 1995-1997 Member of the metropolitan planning team - Development policy for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area and District Plan (The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies - the Hebrew University, and Edna and Refael Lerman - Architects and City Planners). 1997 Advisor, The Inter-Ministerial Commission for Reforming Municipal Boundary Change Procedures. 1997-1998 Advisor, The Government Commission for Municipal Amalgamation. 1998-1999 National Outline Plan No. 35 (Integrative National Outline Plan and Development Plan) - in charge of organization and governance issues. 1998 Co-editor, Studies in the Geography of Israel, Vol. 15, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, and Department of Geography, The Hebrew University. 1999-2000 The Jerusalem District Outline Plan – member of the planning team. 2000-2008 Member of the Steering Committee, Commission on Geography and Public Policy of the International Geographical Union. 2002-2005 Vice President, Israel Geographical Association. 2003 Chairman, Municipal amalgamations commission – Haifa District. 2004 Consultant to the City of Tel Aviv – rezoning local taxing areas. 2004-2010 Participant in the International Metropolitan Observatory group, an academic research network sponsored by CNRS (France). 2004 Razin, E., Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: From discrimination to equality? A narrowing or widening gap? Reflections from local government, Submitted to The Arab Center for Alternative Planning. 2004 Coordinator of the panel on local government for the Annual Economic Conference (Caesarea conference), July. 2004 Member of the Committee for the Evaluation of Redistribution of Non-Residential Arnona (Property Tax), appointed by the Minister of Interior. 2004-2005 Member of the Board – MIU, Movement for Israeli Urbanism. 2005-2010 Consultant, an index for the estimation of municipal service burdens, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics. 2006 The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, Report to the Evaluation Committee – in charge of the preparation of the report for an international evaluation committee headed by Prof. Susan Fainstein (Columbia University). 2006-2007 Member of Vision for Jerusalem Project (sponsored by the Foundations Forum). Reports (with Emil Israel) on Jerusalem as a capital city: the government sector and the city's economy; and on government and governance framework for Jerusalem and the metropolis. 2007-2010 Member, Municipal Amalgamation Commission (appointed by the Ministry of Interior). 2007- Member of the Physical Planning Committee, Beit HaKerem Neighborhood Administration, Jerusalem. 2007-2009 Member, Fellowship Committee of the Mifal HaPayis (Israeli Lottery) Foundation for Municipal Research. 2008-2016 Chairman, Permanent municipal boundary and revenue redistribution commissions, Ministry of Interior. 2008-2012 Member of the Steering Committee, Commission on Geography and Governance of the International Geographical Union. 2010 Member of the committee for rural settlement in the year 2025, appointed by the President of Israel. 2010-2018 Member, Board of the Israeli Planners Association and the Annual Conference Committee. 2011- Chairman of the Commission for Municipal Statistics and Geographical Classifications, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics. 3 2012- Member of the Governing Board of the International Political Science Association Research Committee 05 – Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics. 2013-2014 Chairman, commission of municipal revenue redistribution in the Negev, Ministry of Interior. 2016- Honorary member, Commission on Geography and Governance of the International Geographical Union 2017 Chairman, Commission of inquiry for the establishment of Municipal Clusters (Eshkolot) type of Municipal Unions, Ministry of Interior. 2018- Deputy head, Israeli Planners Association. Organization of conferences (since 1998) 1. A Joint Meeting of the Hebrew University and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University: New Approaches in Metropolitan Governance and Metropolitan Development – Israel and Indiana. Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 4.1.1998-5.1.1998. 2. A meeting of the Thematic Network ‘Working on the Fringes: Immigrant Businesses, Economic Integration and Informal Practices’, sponsored by the European Commission under the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme: The Economic Embeddedness of Immigrant Enterprises. Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, 17.6.2000-20.6.2000. 3. The