Dr. Amichai Magen is a Senior Lecturer, head of the MA Program in Diplomacy & Conflict Studies, and Director of the Program on Democratic Resilience and Development (PDRD) at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya.
His academic research has been published in leading law, international relations, economics, and political science journals, including International Studies Review, the Stanford Journal of International Law, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of Contextual Economics, West European Politics, and the Journal of Democracy.
Amichai Magen received the Yitzhak Rabin Fulbright Award (2003), served as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford University, and was the first Israeli to be awarded the prestigious National Fellow Award at the Hoover Institution (2008). Between 2005 and 2009 he served as a lecturer at Stanford law School. In 2016 he was named Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy, an award that recognizes outstanding thought-leaders around the world. Between 2018 and 2021 he was Principal Investigator in two Horizon 2020 research consortia, EU-LISTCO and RECONNECT.
Amichai Magen served on the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and is a Board Member of the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR), the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR), and the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI).