Iris Geva-May is the founding Editor-in-chief of the international Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice (JCPA), Routledge, Oxford, UK (1997-to date) and founder of the International Comparative Policy Analysis-Forum - a Scholarly Society (since 2004) dedicated to promoting comparative policy studies (http://www.jcpa.ca). She has been Professor of Policy Studies in the Doctoral Leadership Program, and Associate in the Program of Public Policy and Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, starting in 2000. Formerly, she was affiliated with the Department of International Affairs, School of Political Science, Haifa University, Israel. She has been Visiting Professor at a number of Graduate Schools of Public Policy such as UC Berkeley, US, (1993, 1995), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, (1997, 1998), Kyoto University, Japan (2000), National University of Singapore (1999), Central European University, Budapest (1999), Tel Aviv University, Israel (2000), Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2004), Honorary Professor at Plymouth University, UK (2000-2006), and the Rangel Center for Public Service, CUNY and the Ford Foundation (2007-2010).

Her PhD is from the University of Manchester, UK (1986). She undertook Post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Public Policy, with Aaron Wildavsky. She served as director of the Department of Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Education; advisor in policy analysis and planning to the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, Ministry of Science and Technology, the Government Commission - Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem; Governor's Office, MYE Province, Japan, and others. She also served as advisor for the planning or re-organization of several Programs of Public Policy in a number of countries.

Among others, she is Fulbright Fellowship recipient 1995, Canadian Enrichment Program (Canadian "Fulbright") recipient 1995, 1997, 2000, British Council award recipient 1999 and 1983, ORS, UK in 1984 and Hornby Award, UK, 1985. In recent years she has been Fiocruz Foundation Fellow (Brazil, 2003), Japanese Government Fellow (2000), and Canadian Studies Halbert Fellow, Jerusalem (2004). She has recently been honored by her inclusion in the World Who's Who for her "mark on international comparative policy studies."

She is international editor of the Journal of Public Affairs Education (NASPAA); editorial board member of the International Journal of Public Management; International Public Management Review, Elsevier; Public Policy Review, Blackwell; and, had been scientific reviewer for the EU Commission - Research Committee and INTAS. She has a considerable number of funded research reports and grants including a Standard SSHRC (Canadian Science and Humanities Academy) 2006-2009 and Ford Foundation 2007-2010, articles in refereed journals, chapters in books, work-papers, several books, and a long list of talks and international conference presentations. The focus of her research is comparative: (a) methods of policy analysis and evaluation; (b) developments and trends in policy programs worldwide including advancement of underserved populations in the pubic service; (c) impact of political cultures on policy analysis and policy planning; (d) clinical reasoning in policy analysis processes; (e) implementation models; (f) policy studies focus: immigration, higher education, healthcare, environment.

Her most recent books are Comparative Public Policy Analysis Studies, Routledge, UK, 2009, and Thinking Like a Policy Analyst: Policy Analysis as a Clinical Profession, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2005 -"a cutting edge book" in policy analysis literature (reviewer note). The translation in Chinese of An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft (1997, 2000, 2002), Wunan Publishers, Taiwan was published in 2008. Forthcoming are: A Methodology for Policy Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan, New York; a seven-year comparative book series (with M. Howlett) titled An International Library of Policy Analysis, Policy Press, UK enhancing policy developments in fifteen countries/volumes; and Immigration Policies summarizing twenty years of study on the subject.