Udi Adiri

Udi Adiri is a senior Israeli public-sector leader and business executive whose career has focused on energy, infrastructure, natural resources, and economic policy. He began his government service in 2005 in the Budgets Department at the Ministry of Finance, where he later became Deputy Director in charge of infrastructure. In 2017, he was appointed Director General of the Ministry of Energy. Throughout his public career, he has been closely involved in the design and implementation of major national reforms across the energy, water, transportation, ports, and competition sectors. He currently serves as Group CEO at Blilious.

In his public-sector roles, he was responsible for a number of key national policy initiatives, including the first and second Sheshinski Committees on state revenues from natural resources, the natural gas framework, the expansion of private electricity generation, reforms in the agricultural water sector, and structural changes in public transportation and port development. During his tenure, the Leviathan gas field was developed, progress was made on connecting the Karish and Tanin fields, and natural gas exports to Jordan and Egypt grew substantially. From 2020, he also led Israel’s negotiating team in the talks with Lebanon on the delimitation of the two countries’ economic waters.