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Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel - Prof. Zvi Eckstein

Prof. Zvi Eckstein
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Birth: April 9, 1949, Israel.
Marital Status: Married + 3 children.
EDUCATION:
1971-1973 Tel-Aviv University Economics B.A. 1974.
1976-1980 University of Minnesota Economics Ph.D.1981.
Doctoral Dissertation:
Rational Expectations Modeling of Agricultural Supply: The Egyptian Case.
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel.
Professor, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University.
The Mario Henrique Simonson Chair in Labor Economics.
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1980-1984 Yale University, Department of Economics & Economic Growth Center, Assistant Professor.
1983-1985 Tel Aviv University, Department of Economics, Lecturer.
1985-1989 Tel-Aviv University, Department of Economics, Senior Lecturer.
1989-1999 Tel-Aviv University, Department of Economics, Associate Professor.
1986-1987 Carnegie-Mellon University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Visiting Associate Professor.
1987-1988 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics, Visiting Associate Professor.
1989-2001 Boston University, Department of Economics, Professor.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:
1976-78 University of Minnesota, Korda Fellowship.
1982 General Service Foundation, Grant to the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.
1982-84 National Science Foundation, Grant No.SES-8207594.
1984 David Horowitz Institute for the Research of Developing Countries, Tel-Aviv University Yavor Prize for a paper.
1985-87 National Science Foundation, Grant No.SES-8502214.
1987-90 National Science Foundation, Grant No.:SES-8715706.
1988-90 Bi-national Science Foundation, Grant No.: 87-00121/1.
1991-93 National Science Foundation, Grant No.: SES-9109607.
1993-96 National Science Foundation, Grant No.: SES-9309636.
1997-1999 German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research & Development, Grant no. I 0427-084.4.
1997-2000 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
  Grant no: 1 R01 HD34716-01.
2001-2004 Israel Science Foundation, Grant No. 884/01-1.
2004-2007 National Science Foundation, Grant No. : SES-0318364.
2004-2006 Israel Science Foundation, Grant No. 815-04.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Since 1997 Co-Editor, European Economic Review.
Since 2002 Chairman of the Investment Committee and Director of the Provident Funds of the Mercantile Discount Bank, Israel.
Since 2001 Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Since 2000 Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Since 1998 Research Fellow, IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor.
Since 1997 Research Fellow, CEPR, Center for Economic Policy Research.
Since 1981 Member of the American Economic Association.
  Member of the Econometric Society.
PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2005 Member of a Public committee appointed by the Defense Minister of Israel on Shortening the Length of Mandatory Military Service.
2005 Member of a Public committee appointed by the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment on revising the Anti Trust law.
1999-2001 Chairman, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University,
1998-2001 Chairman of the Investment Committee and Director at the Provident Funds of Bank Leumi of Israel Ltd.
2000 Member of an Israeli government committee on the minimum wage.
1993-1998 Chairman of the Investment Committee and Director of the Provident Funds of the Mercantile Discount Bank, Israel.
1994-1995 Chairman of a professional committee “For the advancement of the employment of engineers and other experts among the immigrants and for the utilization of the human capital of the recent immigration wave,” appointed by Mr. Yair Zaban, The Minister of Immigration Absorption, The State of Israel.
1992–1997 Director from the Public of Mei-Eden Cooperation, Israel.
1992-1993 Chairman of the Investment Committee and Director in LHAK Mutual funds of Bank Hapoalim, Israel.
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