Dr. Gil Ariely

Dr. Gil Ariely is the CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) and senior researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) of Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, at The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya; He is researching learning-patterns and innovation in terrorism.

Dr. Ariely is a leading expert on managing operational knowledge in critical environments, crisis management and emergency preparedness. He consulted on knowledge methodologies, futures foresight, operational learning and Intellectual Capital to Government and Industry organizations around the world, and serves on editorial boards of academic journals on knowledge, and in advisory boards of government and industry.
He helped install cutting-edge methodologies, structures and concepts of operational knowledge management as an interagency interoperability vehicle for command & control, and lessons-learned mechanisms. Dr. Ariely is a Lt. Colonel (ret.) with 20 years of experience. He initiated and helped inaugurate the field of Operational Knowledge Management in the IDF Ground Forces since 2001, was the first acting CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) of the Ground Forces IDF, and has written the Army's first doctrine book on Learning during operations, and operational knowledge management.

Dr. Ariely earned his Ph.D. at the University of Westminster, London, researching knowledge and managing it in the Government sector. He is a founding member of ICTAC (International Counter Terrorism Academic Community), a member of BIOPoM (Business Information, Organisation and Process Management) research Center at the University of Westminster, London, and a member of the Proteus USA group. He is also a member of ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society).