Nir Yaron

Nir Yaron is a visiting fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. His work focuses on Middle East economic integration, government technology, and defense innovation, with particular attention to how technological adoption in government and defense shapes national security.

Prior to joining Hudson, Yaron served as chief of staff to the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Finance, where he led inter-ministerial teams working on geoeconomic policy, technological transformation, and Israel’s defense-tech ecosystem. He previously spent nearly a decade in Israel’s defense establishment in cybersecurity R&D, product management, and technology leadership roles.

Yaron graduated first in his class from Talpiot, Israel’s three-year military technology leadership academy, holds a BSc in computer science and physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is an incoming MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Yaron is co-founder and chair of the Talpiot Alumni Forum, a nonprofit that serves Talpiot graduates and helps direct their expertise toward public and national needs. He studied Arabic and was involved in Jewish-Arab dialogue and bridge-building initiatives.