Michal Sella is the executive director of the Givat Haviva Center for Shared Society, and an expert in Israeli politics and public policy. She has extensive experience working with governmental bodies both in Israel and abroad, as the Director of the Center for Policy Change at Shatil - New Israel Fund, a parliamentary advisor at the Knesset, a journalist and co-editor at Channel 2, and a co-founder of The Whistle (the Israeli fact-checking NGO). She holds a master's degree from Oxford University in public policy, as well as bachelor's degrees from Tel Aviv University in history and journalism.