Professor (Dr.) Mona Khoury is a full professor and the Vice President for Strategy and Diversity. Prof. Khoury is the previous Dean of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an alumna of the Israel Young Academy and of the Global Young Academy. She holds the Frances and George Katz Family Chair at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University. In 2021, Prof. Khoury won the Bruno Memorial Prize for outstanding Israeli researchers. She was a 2002 Fulbright Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, and a visiting professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto for two, non-subsequent, academic years, 2011-12 and 2016-17. In 2023, Prof. Khoury received the President of Israel’s Medal of Honor in recognition of her extraordinary contribution to the State of Israel. Her research focuses on child and adolescents’ deviant and delinquent behaviors in three particular areas: school violence, cyberbullying, and juvenile delinquency and political violence. Her research examines how sociopolitical context influences child and adolescent development and adjustment.