Rabbi Aharon Lavi is the Managing Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center, which works with religious leaders worldwide to make religion part of the solution to global challenges. He is also the founder and co-director of Hakhel, the Jewish Intentional Communities Incubator in the Diaspora (awarded the 2020 Jerusalem Unity Prize), and the founder of the Garin Shuva community on the Gaza border.

Rabbi Lavi holds academic degrees in Economics, Geography (BA), and History and Philosophy of Ideas (MA). He recently completed his PhD dissertation on the migration of ideas between US Jewry and Israeli society. In 2024, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and wrote on Jewishly inspired community building. He is a published author on Jewish economic and environmental thought, community building, international religious affairs, and more.

Outside of his professional life, Rabbi Lavi is an avid mountain biker. His passion for the sport extends beyond leisure, as he is also a professional racer, trainer, and trail builder.