Prof. Shlomo Romi was head of the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and today is the director of the university’s Institute for Education and Community Research. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Bar-Ilan’s Department of Psychology and his PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada. His fields of research include informal education and its characteristics and connection to formal education. He also studies the characteristics of at-risk youth and recently (December 2014) published the first of his two books on at-risk children and adolescents in Israel. Prof. Romi also conducts research in the field of educational psychology, such as classroom management methods and integrating children and adolescents with special needs in normative frameworks. He received his PhD in 1988 from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.