Dr. Shmuel Bar is founder and CEO of IntuView Ltd – an Israeli based software company that has developed an integrated semantics-driven platform for “meaning mining” of unstructured textual documents in various languages (including but not only social media) through automated emulation of the intuition and knowledge of seasoned subject experts. The output includes idea extraction, summarization, entity extraction/resolution and name matching 

Dr. Shmuel Bar holds a Ph.D. in History of the Middle East from Tel-Aviv University. He heads “Shmuel Bar – Research and Consultancy Ltd.” which issues a monthly “Middle East Strategic Outlook” focusing on medium and long-term projection of trends in the Middle East in the light of current events and “Russia Strategic Outlook” which focuses on issues relating to Russia. These publications are based on a network of experts who contribute their insights and forecasts each month. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at International Institute for Non-Proliferation Studies, an Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute and has been (2007) Distinguished Koret Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has lectured at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on issues relating to Israeli national security. During this period, Dr. Bar has headed research projects – many of them for US government agencies - and published extensively on issues relating to the Middle East, including strategic issues in the Middle East, nuclear proliferation, deterrence (both nuclear and vis-à-vis terrorist threats), radical Islamic ideology, Iran, Syria, Jordan and the Palestinians. Until January 2019 he also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion University in Haifa. 

From 2003 and June 2013 Dr. Bar served as Senior Research Fellow and then Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel and on the steering team of the annual "Herzliya Conference". Until 2003 Dr. Bar served for thirty years in the Israeli government, first in the IDF Intelligence and then in analytic and operational positions in the Israeli Office of the Prime Minister. Since the mid 1980’s he specialized in the ideology and operational codes of Islamic fundamentalist movements and particularly the Jihadi movement that later evolved into al-Qaeda. Between 1998-2002 Dr. Bar served as First Secretary at the Israeli Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands and in that capacity liaised with government agencies in the Netherlands, the UK and the Republic of Ireland.