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Prof. Arad is the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Security Council in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Prof. Uzi Arad is the Founding Head of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where he established and chairs the Annual Herzliya Conference Series on Israel’s Balance of National Security. Concurrently, Advisor to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Prof. Arad served in the Mossad for some twenty-five years holding senior positions in Israel and abroad, his last position being Director of Intelligence, after which he was appointed the Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Prior to his career in government, he was a Professional Staff Member with the Hudson Institute in New York and a Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Center for Strategic Studies.
Prof. Arad received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from Princeton University, which he attended as a Fulbright scholar. He also graduated from advanced executive courses at Harvard University.
In the course of his academic and government career, Prof. Arad published numerous books and articles, among them Sharing Global Resources for the New York Council on Foreign Relations.