Ronit Justo-Hanani is an assistant professor of public policy and risk regulation at the Department of Public Policy, and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University. She has a multidisciplinary academic background which includes Law, Biology, and Public Policy.
She teaches courses on risk regulation of health, environment and consumer safety, the regulation of emerging technologies, and regulatory policy in the public sector. Dr. Justo-Hanani is a supporter of interactive teaching methods, such as projects and case studies.
Working at the interface of biology, public policy and political science and studies of regulation and governance, Ronit Justo-Hanani has extensive experience of interdisciplinary collaboration. In 2010-2011 she participated in collaborative EU-funded project of ODEMM (Options for Delivering Ecosystem-based Marine Management), and advanced course of Public Communication & Applied Ethics of Nano-biotechnology, funded under FP6 (Nanobio-RAISE project). Dr. Justo-Hanani is a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. She was also a member of the research group on biosecurity and transnational crime at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada.
Currently, Dr. Justo-Hanani works on the following projects:
► Governing Nanotechnology: The Politics of Risk Regulation in Europe and the United States | monograph to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing
► The Limits and Prospects for International Regulatory Cooperation on Synthetic Biology | The Steinhardt Museum
► Europe and Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Lessons from the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework | The Steinhardt Museum
Ronit Justo-Hanani is frequently invited to lecture on the topic of risk regulation of environment, science and technology to policymakers and academic audiences. She was invited to teach at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), as part of Erasmus+ program (2018-2019). She also led personal research projects funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Israel, Ministry of Environmental Protection of Israel, Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel, Environment and Health Fund, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies.
Previously, Ronit Justo-Hanani worked as adjunct lecturer and post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Public Policy, and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History of Tel Aviv University (2017-2021), where she obtained her PhD (2016). In 2014-2016, she was a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business in the University of California, Berkeley, United States, with Prof. David Vogel as a host. In 2013, she was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. In 2007, she held a UNESCO L'OREAL fellowship at the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology Law and Ethics in the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Justo-Hanani studied Law at the Reichman University (IDC), and Ecology, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Previously, she was a lawyer in a Law firm.
