Associate Vice Chancellor, President & CEO
Amir Naiberg serves as associate vice chancellor, president and CEO of UCLA Technology Development Corporation, a campus-wide resource that serves as a gateway to innovation, research and entrepreneurship at UCLA. Amir’s role includes operational, strategic and public interfacing responsibilities related to growing and enhancing the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, industry sponsored research, and campus innovation and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining UCLA in August 2016, Amir worked in Rehovot, Israel, at Yeda Research and Development Company, the technology transfer company of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which is ranked as one of the top three technology transfer organizations in the world. Amir is one of the founders of the Israel Technology Transfer Organization (ITTN), a nonprofit that unites various technology transfer offices throughout Israel. Amir holds a law degree from the Hebrew University School of Law and an LLM from the University of Connecticut School of Law.