Itai Sened received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990. Promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, in 2004, he served as the Chair of the Department between 2004-7. His studies and teaches comparative institutions, game theory and applied mathematical modeling. He published The Political Institution of Private Property, at Cambridge University Press in 1997 (new edition in paper back published in 2007). He Co-authored with Gideon Doron Political Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process, with Sage Publication in 2001 (available in paper back edition and eBook collection at Sage) and with Norman Schofield: Multiparty Democracy, at Cambridge University Press, 2006, also in paper back. He is the co-editor, with Jack Knight, of Explaining Social Institutions from Michigan Press (1995, a paperback new edition was printed in 2005) and with Sebastian Galiani: Economic Institutions, Rights, Growth, and Sustainability: The Legacy of Douglass North, with Cambridge University Press. His new book with Karen Umansky on Rise of the New Right in Europe is currently in prit at Lexington Press. He published numerous articles in all the top refereed journals in Political Science including, The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, The British journal of Political Science, the European Journal for Political Research, the Journal of Theoretical Politics and many others. Since his return to Israel, in 2013, he served as the Chair of the Department of Public Policy, the Founding Head of the School of Social and Policy Studies, the Founding Head of the Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solution to Global Challenges and the Founding Head of the International Graduate School of Social Sciences. Between 2020-5 he served as the Dean of the Gersho H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University.