Ido Sharir

Ido Sharir was born in 1975

Ido Sharir was born in 1975 and grew up in Tel Aviv. He graduated from the Alliance school in Tel Aviv. He is married to Lior Ofer Sharir and has two daughters and a son.

He served in the IDF from 1993 to 1997 in command roles in the Paratroopers Brigade. He later studied law and government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and completed a management program at Tel Aviv University. He interned at the Danziger Klagsbald law firm and became a lawyer in 2003.

He was a managing partner in a management company that guided companies in crisis in Israel and the United States. In 2007 he became chief of staff to Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai. In 2008 he became chief of staff to President Shimon Peres, and in 2012 he was named director general of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

In 2014 Minister Yaakov Peri appointed him director general of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. During his term the ministry budget grew, and the Israel Space Agency expanded its work. He later served as vice president for policy and government relations at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

Since 2018 he has been director general of the Reut association, which works in health, welfare and aging. During the Swords of Iron war, the Reut rehabilitation center opened a clinic for post-trauma patients, and the association began building a new rehabilitation hospital. Since 2020 he has sat on the board of the Peres Center.