Leonard Suransky
Leonard Suransky is a South African doctor of International Relations and Education and is the former Head of the Department of International Relations at Webster University in Leiden, Netherlands. Subsequently, he headed the IR department of Webster University, Accra Ghana from 2014-to 2019, and still teaches there by Zoom in 2022. He is currently the co-chair of the University of the Third Age (U3a), Cape Town, and the Chair of the Camps Bay U3a branch Early life and education Suransky was born and raised in South Africa. He has a BA from Hebrew University Jerusalem, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He specializes in designing and administering International Relations games and simulations, in the academic, public and corporate sectors. His son Shael Polakow-Suransky is the president of Bank Street College of Education.His second son Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an Associate Editor of 'Foreign Policy' in London. His daughter Sarafina is a psychologist in the Netherlands, specialising in Schema Therapy at a Viersprong clinic. Sonya works for the high-tech employment agency SALT in Cape Town. He is Jewish, and was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa before