Daniel Felsenstein is a Professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are in economic geography and regional science. His work uses the tools of dynamic simulation modeling and spatial econometrics. Current research projects relate to simulating urban resilience to large scale shocks, dynamics of change in housing markets and estimating a spatial general equilibrium model for Israel. He has published over 100 papers and 5 books on these and other related topics. He serves as consultant to the OECD program on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED).