Professor Amir Yaron
Professor Amir Yaron was appointed by the President of Israel as Governor of the Bank of Israel on December 24, 2018 and reappointed for a second term on December 18, 2024.
He is a world-renowned expert in macroeconomics, monetary economics, finance, and financial economics.
Prof. Yaron obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Tel Aviv University, and served as an officer in the unit of the Economic Advisor to the IDF Chief of General Staff. He then went abroad, where he obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He is a full professor in the Finance Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has held the Robert Morris Chair in Banking.
Prof. Yaron has served in a number of senior leadership positions in the academic world:
- Faculty Research Associate at NBER, and one of its research group heads on capital markets and economics.
- President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE).
- Member of the Board of the Western Finance Association.
- Chairman of SFS Cavalcade.
- Editor of a number of periodicals.
Professor Yaron has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, MIT, the University of Chicago, Goethe University, the Bank of Israel, CEMFI-Spain, IIES-Sweden, and the IMF.
