Dr. Eli Gottlieb is Vice President of the Mandel Foundation – Israel and Director of the Mandel Leadership Institute. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in the Psychology of Education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Gottlieb has served as a visiting professor in Cognitive Studies in Education at the University of Washington, an adjunct lecturer at the School of Education at the Hebrew University and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research examines the relations between cognition, identity and education. Recent publications include "The development of religious thinking" (Religious Education, 2006) and "Learning how to believe: Epistemic development in cultural context" (Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007).