Peretz Lavie (Hebrew: פרץ לביא; born 19 February 1949) was the 16th president of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, having taken the position on 1 October 2009 through September 2019.

Between 1993 and 1999 he served as dean of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, and between 2001 and 2008, as the Technion’s vice president for resource development and external relations.

[1] He received his Ph.D. in physiological psychology at the University of Florida, in 1974, working in the pioneering sleep laboratory of Wilse B. Webb.

He continued postdoctorate research at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of California, San Diego[2] with Daniel Kripke.

[7] Lavie initiated and participated in a number of actions to change public regulations in Israel, for example in cancelling the "zero hour" policy in primary schools.

Another, “Restless Nights: Understanding Snoring and Sleep Apnea,” earned him the 2006 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Authors Award.

[12][13] The success of this bid, and the creation of the Technion-Cornell Institute of Innovation (TCII) in 2012, the first such honor to be received by any Israeli center of higher education.