Ira Hoffman is the longest-serving mentor of the Merage Institute’s program in government contracts, homeland security, and cybersecurity. He is also the Director of the Public Contracting Institute (PCI), a leading training company comprised of prominent specialists in Federal, State, local, and international contracting, where he teaches courses on small business contracting, U.S. export controls (ITAR, EAR, OFAC), and FMS, FMF, and DCC/DCS. Mr. Hoffman is also a Fellow of the Cyber Security Forum Initiative (CSFI) and is a frequent panelist at HLS and cybersecurity conferences. He was also the Editor of The Annotated Export Administration Regulations Desk Reference and is the author of several articles on government contracts, HLS, and cyber issues.

Previously, Mr. Hoffman was a member of the faculty of the Shiloah (now Dayan) Center for Middle East Studies at Tel Aviv University; served as Counsel to the Vice Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission; and was the first in-house counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Defense Mission to the United States. He also taught courses on “International Trade Law” and “European Union Law” as an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law. Mr. Hoffman has a B.A. from the University of Michigan; an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where he also taught; and a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review.