Ronen Shoval is the Dean of Tikvah Fund, Head of Argaman Institute and Director of the Theodor Herzl Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Culture, and Jewish political thought at the Argaman Institute, Israel. He has also taught at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and has been a research associate at the Institute for Zionist Strategies and Herzl institute.

Ronen holds a BA in international relations and an MA in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University. He earned a PhD in Jewish political thought from the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. He is the author of Herzl Vision 2.0 (Rubin Mass, 2010) and the winner of Begin Center Award for Outstanding Academic Research. During his fellowship with the James Madison Program, he will study the characteristics of the epistemological assumptions underlying the conservative worldview. Dr. Shoval is a Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University.