Rear Admiral Oded Gour-Lavie (IDF, Ret.) is a publishing Expert at The MirYam Institute. He is also a Research Fellow at the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy (HMS).He concluded his military career in 2015 as the Head of the IDF…

Rear Admiral Oded Gour-Lavie (IDF, Ret.) is a publishing Expert at The MirYam Institute. He is also a Research Fellow at the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy (HMS).

He concluded his military career in 2015 as the Head of the IDF’s Legal & Strategic Policy Team as part of the planning directorate. He is the former Head of the Sea Division in charge of Naval Operations, Training and Doctrine for the Israeli Navy and former Commander of the Israeli Submarine Force.

He graduated Cum-Laude in Electrical Engineering from the Israeli Institute of Technology – Technion, Haifa.

Gour-Lavie received his Master's in Public Administration (MC-MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He participated in the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program.

He recently finished a year as a Visiting Fellow at MIT Sloan school of Management.

Oded is active in several entrepreneurial projects in cyber, energy and agriculture. He currently is the CEO & co-founder of a startup focused on energy.

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