David Levi-Faur (born in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli political scientist and academic who specializes in comparative political economy and public policy, regulation and governance.

[1] Levi-Faur is one of the main authorities on regulation in the social sciences.

He was co-founder of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulation and Governance.

Together with John Braithwaite and Cary Coglianese, Levi-Faur is a founding editor of the Regulation & Governance journal.

[2] Together with Avishai Benish he edits the Working Papers series Jerusalem Papers in Regulation & Governance Levi-Faur edited the Handbook on the Politics of Regulation, The Oxford Handbook of Governance and together with Jacint Jordana, The Rise of Regulatory Capitalism; The Global Diffusion of a New Order and The Politics of Regulation.