CMEI Colloquium
Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education
October 15, 2012
Speaker Biography: Professor Yael (Yuli) Tamir is the President of Shenkar College. She was a deputy speaker of the Knesset and served as Israel's Minister of Immigration (1999-2001) and Minister of Education (2006-2009). Tamir received her BA and MA from the Hebrew University (Cum Laude), and her Ph.D. in political philosophy from Oxford University where she worked under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin. She was a professor at Tel-Aviv University and a visiting professor and a scholar-in-residence at: Princeton, Harvard, The University of Pennsylvania, the Central European University in Budapest and New York University.