Hanoch Ilsar

Israel

Environmental Change & Management (MSc), 2008
Linacre College, Oxford

Funding: Weidenfeld

Hanoch received his MSc in Environmental Change and Management with distinction in 2008 as a Weidenfeld Scholar and holds an LL.B in Law and Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has a vast experience working with environmental NGOs in Israel. Among other, he successfully led the promulgation of the Clean Air act in Israel through its work at the Israel Union for Environmental Defence (IUED).

From 2009 to 2015 he served as CEO of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. During this period he founded the following initiatives: ‘Ecology & Environment’ science-to-policy quarterly reporting in Israel; ‘Mimshak’, a science and policy fellows programme and ‘Zavit’ – an environmental news agency.

Since 2016 Hanoch assumed the Environment Programme Director position at Yad Hanadiv (The Rothchild Foundation) where he currently promotes strategic initiatives in a wide range of environmental issues in Israel. He promotes the establishment of Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean River rehabilitation and integrated watershed management, and mitigates urban heat through urban forestry Regenerative agriculture- demonstration farms.

Hanoch is currently based in Israel.