Uzi Rubin is the founder and first Director of the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMOD) in the Israel Ministry of Defense (MOD), in which capacity he initiated and managed the Israel’s nation wide effort to develop, produce and deploy its first national missile defense shield, the Arrow missile defense system. He led the Arrow program from its inception in 1991 to the first delivery of operational missiles in 1999.
He received his ME in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1969 and subsequently directed large missile programs in Israel Aerospace Industries and the Israel MOD. In 1990 as a visiting scholar in the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control he directed a major study on missile proliferation. Between 1999 and 2001 he was the Senior Director for Proliferation and Technology in the Israel National Security Council. He was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize in 1996 and than once more in 2003. In the year 2000 he was awarded the MDA David Israel Prize for achievements in missile defense.
After retiring form the Israel MoD in late 2002, Rubin provided consultation services to the MoD and the national defense industries. He is currently a senior research fellow in the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies as well as in the Jerusalem Institute of Strategic Studies.
