Itai Brun Brigadier General (Res.) has many years of experience in managing large teams of hundreds of analysts in organizations developing knowledge for decision making. During his career, he led the design processes of series of information systems for intelligence analysis. Itai served as the head of the Israel Defense Intelligence (AMAN) Analysis Division from June 2011 to January 2015. In this position he provided ongoing intelligence assessments to the senior military leadership (the Chief of General staff) and the political level (the Prime Minister, The Defense Minister and the Cabinet). Prior to this position, he was the head of the Analysis Department in the Israeli Air Force Intelligence and the first director of the IDF’s DADO Center for Interdisciplinary Military Studies. He founded the center in late 2006, after the second Lebanon War, and served as its director till January 2011. Itai is a lawyer by training and was admitted to the Israeli Bar in 1996. His academic background includes Law and Political Science. He earned his LL.B Degree (Law studies) from Haifa University (cum laude) and a Master’s Degree in Political Science (Diplomacy and Security Studies) from Tel-Aviv University (cum laude). His book Intelligence Analysis – Understanding Reality in time of Dramatic Changes (2015) was published (in Hebrew) by the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center (IICC). He is the co-author (with Itamar Rabinovich) of the book Israel Facing a New Middle East: In Search of a National Security Strategy (2017), published by the Hoover Institution Press. Itai has also published several articles on intelligence and air power issues. Itai is teaching courses on intelligence and national security in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and the Haifa University. In 2016, Itai founded Agree Online, a startup in the field of Online Dispute Resolution.