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Prof. Col. (res.) Kobi Peleg is a senior visiting fellow at INSS and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, where he founded and headed the Department and Master’s Programs in Emergency and Disaster Management. He combines extensive field and academic experience in emergency, crisis, and disaster management, and has served as an expert for the United Nations and the World Health Organization in coordination, management, and needs assessment in disaster zones worldwide. He served as president of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and founded and directed the National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine Research at the Gertner Institute. He is a member of the faculty in the Disaster Medicine Program at Harvard University and a visiting professor at leading universities in Europe, the United States, and China. He has published over 200 articles and co-edited two books, and serves as a consultant on emergency preparedness for governmental and private entities in Israel and abroad. Over the course of his career, he has also served, among other roles, as senior assistant to the Minister of Health, director of the Gertner Institute, board member of Magen David Adom and public companies, member of the National Trauma Council, and commander of the IDF School of Military Medicine.
