Matan Hakim - CV

Employment

• 2018 - Present: Co-Founder and Head of Research, The Israeli Institute for Cultural Policy

• 2022 - Present: Socio-Economic Research Fellow, Arlozorov Forum

• 2018 - 2021: Psychometric Exam Teacher, Kidum

• 2017 - 2018: Physics and Math Teacher, Atidim

• 2015 - 2017: Head of Digital, Tarbut Movement

Education

• 2020 - 2024: MA summa cum laude, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa

• 2016 - 2020: BA magna cum laude, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa

• 2017 - 2018: Information and Business Intelligence Specialist, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology

Projects

• Data analytics and creative content writing, PRESENTENSE (part of the Trump Family Foundation)

• Financial data analysis for strategic business development, Kelim Shluvim¹

Open Source contributions

• Author and maintainer of rtlr, an R package for RTL languages

• Feature development in janitor, an R package for examining and cleaning dirty data

• Proofreading contributions to the open-source books:

  • R for Data Science (2e)

  • R Packages (2e)

  • Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R

Academics

• Author of a thesis research work: “The Cultural Loyalty Dividend”: Inequality in Cultural Funding as a Tool to Build Political Loyalty (2024)

• Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Social Research” (2021 - 2022), for Dr. Dana Zarhin (Senior Lecturer with tenure), Department of Sociology, University of Haifa

• Research Assistant, “Limits to the Financialization of the State? The Case of ‘Social Impact Investment’ in Comparative Perspective” (2021 - 2023), for Dr. Asa Maron (Senior Lecturer with tenure), Department of Sociology, University of Haifa

Conferences

• The Israeli Sociological Society Annual Conference 2025, Open University of Israel, February 2025, Ra’anana, Israel

• ESPAnet Israel Annual Conference 2025, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, February 2025, Tel Aviv, Israel

• “How is a National Culture Built?” - Research Workshop 2024, The Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, September 2024

• Summer Academy on Cultural and Creative Industries and Local Development, the OECD, Trento, Italy, 2022

• World Urban Forum 11, UN-HABITAT, June 2022, Katowice, Poland

• Cultural Mapping and Connecting with Place, University of Coimbra, March 2022, Caldas Da Rainha, Portugal

• The Israeli Sociological Society Annual Conference 2022, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 2022, Jerusalem, Israel

Hebrew Content

Publications

• Young People in the Labor Market in Israel (2024), Arlozorov Forum

• The Want of Job Switching: Analysis of Situation and Trends in Israel (2024), Arlozorov Forum

• The Israeli Guide for Cultural Mapping (2023), the Israeli Institute for Cultural Policy (under review)

• Data Analysis 2011-2021 - Culture in Israel in a Regional Perspective (2023), the Israeli Institute for Cultural Policy (submitted to the Israeli Parliament)

• Culture as an Israeli Growth Driver (2020), Tarbut Movement (submitted to the Israeli Parliament)

• Cultural Policy Data (2020), Tarbut Movement (submitted to the Israeli Parliament)

Talks

• Data on the Cultural Field in Israel (2023), presented in the Israeli Parliament, Special Committee for Strengthening and Developing the Negev and Galilee

• Cultural Policy and Local Governments: Between Inequalities and Political Compensation (2022), presented in the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society

  • A draft of this talk was also presented in the University of Haifa Young Researchers Forum of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion (2021)

• Inequality in Israel (2020), presented in the Balfur Protest Organization Meeting

• Christian Motives in “Kehilyatenu” (2020), presented in the Annual Conference of the Israeli Labor Movement Research Forum

• The Privatization of the Israeli Pension System (2017), Beit Berl Academic College

Footnotes

1. See this TheMarker news article