Mr. Tal Inbar
Head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies
Mr. Tal Inbar is the Head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies. He studied Political Science and Security Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He started working at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies in 2003, and became the director of the institute’s space and UAV research center in 2007. He co-founded the international Ilan Ramon Space Conference in 2006, and is a leading member of its academic committee ever since. Admitted as a member to the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) in 1997, and he is a member in many scientific organizations.
Mr. Inbar follows the space programs of Israel for almost 30 years, and has written numerous articles and op-eds in national and international media. Under Mr. Inbar’s supervision and guidance, the Fisher institute conducted major research into Israel’s space policy. Another on-going project, is a series of articles on the history of Israel’s space program, which Mr. Inbar presents annually at the International Astronautical Congress. He is a member of the history committee of the International Academy of Astronautics, and the Asia-Pacific regional group of the International Astronautical Federation, and was the editor of the 2015 IAC proceedings of the history of astronautics symposium.
Mr. Inbar is a frequent speaker at international conferences, workshops and seminars, and brifings to US congress and Senate. He is a guest lecturer in various courses, among them the school of airpower studies, the command and staff college, Intelligence branch units and more.
In his daily work, Mr. Inbar covers several space issues such as space policy and technical assessments of foreign space and missile programs of Iran, North Korea and China. He is a visiting scholar to RAND and the Washington Institute, and adviser to the Israeli Space Agency on various issues including space education.
