Dr. Cochav Elkayam Levy established and chairs Dvora Institute for Gender and Sustainability Studies, and The Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children. She is the principal author of the National Report on Gender Mainstreaming in Times of Emergencies, which was adopted by the Israeli government in June 2022. She was selected as one of the most promising young leaders under 40 in Israel by The Marker Magazine in 2022 (Ha'aretz), and recently co-authored the analysis of the implications of the government's legal reform on the lives of women in Israel. Dr. Elkayam-Levy is the Sophie Davis Fellow on Gender, Conflict Resolution and Peace at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; She teaches human rights law, international law, climate justice and feminist theories at Hebrew U and at Reichman University; A Senior Fellow, at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem; SJD and former Human Rights Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Former Perry World House Fellow; A Salzburg Global Fellow for Oustanding Scholars in International Law, Washington DC; and a member of the President’s new Climate Forum. Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, president of the Dvora Institute for Gender and Sustainability Studies and chair of the Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children.