Professor Anat Tchetchik is an environmental economist and a senior faculty member at Bar-Ilan University, where she serves as Head of the Environmental Management and Innovation track in the Department of Environment, Planning, and Sustainability. Her research focuses on the development and application of methodological tools for understanding consumer preferences and decision-making processes, with particular emphasis on pro-environmental behavior and the valuation of environmental goods and services. Her work integrates advanced econometric methods, including revealed and stated preference approaches, to examine motivations, barriers, and economic equilibrium conditions within environmental systems. Her research has been published in leading scientific journals, and she has been awarded competitive research grants from national and international funding bodies, including the European Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, and Israeli government ministries.

Lee Gafter is an expert in quantitative modelling, specializing in the development and application of advanced quantitative methodologies for the analysis of human behavior, individual and public preferences, and latent phenomena. Her research interests include psychometrics, dimensionality reduction and statistical machine learning techniques, quasi-parametric estimation methods, Discrete Choice Experiments, and hierarchical and multi-population models. She is involved in applied and theoretical interdisciplinary research in the fields of environmental and natural resource management, and serves as a methodological and statistical advisor to competitive research grants funded by Horizon Europe, the ERC, and the Israel Science Foundation, providing analytical infrastructure for research, policy, and planning.