Dr. Cochav Elkayam Levy is a senior research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She is the founder and chair of the Dvora Institute for Gender and Sustainability Studies, as well as the Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, where she was the principal author of the National Report on Gender Mainstreaming in Times of Emergencies, a document adopted by the Israeli government in June 2022.

Cochav is the Sophie Davis Fellow on Gender, Conflict Resolution, and Peace at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where her work focuses on human rights law, international law, climate justice, and feminist theories at both Hebrew University and Reichman University. She was named one of the most promising young leaders under 40 in Israel by Ha’aretz in 2022.

A former Human Rights Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Cochav previously served as a Perry World House Fellow, a Salzburg Global Fellow for Outstanding Scholars in International Law, and is a distinguished member of the President’s new Climate Forum.