Senior lecturer in psychology and education at the University of Haifa. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Katz was chairman of the Department of Education and also chaired the M.A. committee in the Department of Psychology and in the Department of Counseling and Human Development. Dr. Katz was an editor of the Studies in Administration and Organization in Education journal and was guest editor of the Studies in Education journal. He is a member of the steering committee of the "Matriculation Exams 2000 – The 22 Schools Project." At chief education officer headquarters (Israel Defense Forces), he heads the research section of the "Raful's Youth" project. Dr. Katz specializes in statistics and quantitative research and his research addresses theories of measurement, mathematics and logic fundamentals, decision-making models and vague systems. Dr. Katz holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Oxford, received in 1976.