Professor at the Academic Center of Law & Business and head of  the Human Rights Clinic.  Among the founders of the Adva Center, co-founder and editor of the Haokets website and lecturer of philosophy at the Open University. Areas of expertise: labor law, workers’ rights and global justice, theories of social justice, the right to education and social justice in the field of education.

Dr. Yuval Livnat is the Executive Director of Adva Center. He holds an SJD degree (Doctor of the Science of Law) from Columbia Law School.

Professor of Educational Policy and Administration in the Department of Education, founding director of the Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, and holder of the Abraham Cutler Chair in Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheba. Received Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota in 2004.  Research interests include educational policy and development among indigenous peoples, Palestinian Arab education and higher education, social identity in heterogeneous societies, the impact of urbanization on the Negev Bedouin Arabs and organizational behavior in multicultural contexts.

Barbara Swirski, the founder and first executive director of Adva. Today she is the director of Community Relations. Barbara is a sociologist and social entrepreneur: she was among the founders of the first shelter for battered women in Israel, in Haifa in 1977, and among the founders of the Adva Center, in 1991.

Dr. Shlomo Swirski is a sociologist who serves as the academic director of the Adva Center. In the past he lectured at the universities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, was a partner in the founding of academic and social enterprises, among them the academic journal Notebooks of Research and Social Critique, HILA for Quality Education, and the Kedma Schools.

Dr. Yael Hasson is the head of Gender Research in Adva. Holds a Doctoral degree in Sociology from Haifa University on gender and economic policy.

Etty Konor-Attias is research coordinator and lecturer at the Adva Center, and is co-author of annual reports: Looking at the National Budget, Israel: A Social Report, Workers and Employers in Israel and the Distribution of the National Income. She has an MA in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University.