Jonathan Adiri
Israeli businessman
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Jonathan Adiri (Hebrew: יהונתן אדירי; born 1982) is an Israeli digital healthcare entrepreneur and an advisor to former Israeli president Shimon Peres.[1][2]
Jonathan Adiri | |
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יהונתן אדירי | |
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| Advisor President of Israel | |
| In office April 2008 – January 2011 | |
| President | Shimon Peres |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 12, 1982 |
| Alma mater | Singularity University Tel Aviv University Open University of Israel |
Education
Jonathan Adiri studied at the Open University of Israel from the age of 14 and graduated in 2000 with a BA in Political Science and International Relations. Adiri earned his MA in Political Science and Law from Tel Aviv University. He graduated magna cum laude in 2006.
Public service career
From 2005-2008, Adiri was Senior Policy Consultant for the Reut Institute, where he focused on national security.[3] Adiri was appointed the first Chief Technology Officer for an Israeli President under President Shimon Peres, from 2008 - 2011.[4][5] During his tenure, he devised a policy of technological diplomacy, forging a set of global collaborations in the water, space, agro, and biomedical fields. These collaborations helped enhance Israeli technology exports by more than $3.3 billion.[6] While serving as Chief Technology Officer for President Peres, Adiri was a member of the inaugural class of Singularity University,[7][8] where he was elected class president.[9][10][11] Adiri is a 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[12] He was a panelist on the 'Rebooting Healthcare' session at the 2016 conference in Davos[13] and on the 'Combating Rising Insecurity and Inquality' discussion at the 2017 conference.[14]
Business career
Adiri is the founder of Healthy.io,[15] a digital healthcare start-up leveraging smartphone and cloud technology to offer access to the benefits of color-based healthcare and medical imaging.[16] The app can help doctors diagnose patients using images from a smartphone.[17][18] Healthy.io makes kits for home urine test for infections, chronic illnesses and pregnancy-related complications through a mobile app. Patients use their smartphone camera to scan a dipstick and the app uses computer vision and artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze chemical color changes.[19] The company was identified as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer[20] in 2016 and 2017[21] The international design firm Designit partnered with Healthy.io to host the first mobile healthcare design hackathon in January 2014.[22][23]
Healthy.io won the Ciudad De Las Ideas Gift Citizen award in 2013.[24] Adiri and Healthy.io were featured on two episodes of WIRED Magazine's docuseries 'Future Cities'; 'The innovation hubs of Tel Aviv & Ramallah'[25] and 'The power of fantasy'.[26] In June 2020 Healthy.io acquired the American startup inui Health, formerly known as Scanadu.[27] In September 2020, Adiri was selected to Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 list.[28]
Published work
- Terror in the Court: Counter-Terrorism and Judicial Power in the Israeli Case Study, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review (Vol.1, 2008)[29][30]
- Counter Terror Warfare: The Judicial Front, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, 01/07/2005[31]
- 5 Tips for Health-Tech Entrepreneurs, VentureBeat 01/10/2016[32]
Awards and recognition
- Gifted Citizen Award, Ciudad De Las Ideas Conference 2013[33]
- Davos World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2012[34]
- TIME Magazine's "The 50 Most Influential People in Health Care of 2018"
- Fortune Magazine's "40/40 in Healthcare 2020"