Dr. Galef is a Fellow of both the Canadian and American Psychological Associations as well as the American Psychological Society, Animal Behavior Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is co-founder, and was, for 8 years, co-organizer of the Winter Animal Behavior Conferences. Dr. Galef was President of the Animal Behavior Society, a member of the Boards of Directors of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, the Animal Behavior Society and the McMaster Museum of Art, and has served on the editorial boards of 13 journals including the Journal of Comparative Psychology and Animal Behaviour of which he was Executive Editor from 1998 to 2001. He has co-edited four books (Social Learning in Animals: the Roots of Culture, Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives, The Question of Animal Culture, Behavioral Aspects of Feeding) and two special issues of journals. He is the author of more than 300 published papers. Dr. Galef has been a Visiting Professor in Panama, Israel, Australia and the United States and is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario