CURRICULUM VITAE - AVI BEN-BASSAT
Address: 59 Even Shmuel st. Jerusalem 97234
Telephone: 0544667321
E-mail: avibb@huji.ac.il
Education and Degrees:
1978 Ph.D., (Economics), Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dissertation: The Optimal Composition of Israel’s Foreign Exchange Reserves
1971 M.A., (Economics) Hebrew University, Jerusalem
(Cum laude)
Dissertation: Capital Stock and Investment Behavior
in Israeli Industry, 1955-1968
1967 B.A., (Economics & Statistics),
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Academic Experience
1996 - present Professor (Emeritus) of Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2015 - 2019 The College of Management Academic Studies
2003 - 2013 Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Visiting positions
2007 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
2002 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics,
Stanford University, and Hoover Institute,
1988 Visiting Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
1982 - 1987 Visiting Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University,
1981 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University
1973 - 1980 Visiting Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
1972 - 1974 Visiting Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University,
Courses (1997- 2019 )
- Fiscal Policy (M.A.)
- Monetary Economics – Theory and the Israeli Experience (B.A)
- Israel Capital Market – Structural Issues (B.A & M.A)
- Macroeconomics (B.A.)
- Israel Economy Workshop (M.A.)
Professional Experience:
1999 - 2001 Director General, Ministry of Finance, Israel
1991 - 1996 Senior Director, Research Department & Foreign
Currency Department, Bank of Israel
1987 - 1992 Director, Research Department, Bank of Israel
1983 - 1987 Deputy Director, Research Department,
Bank of Israel
1982 - 1983 Assistant Director, Research Department,
Bank of Israel
1971 - 1980 Economist, Bank of Israel
Public and Governmental Committees
1. Bank of Israel capital-market reform team, chairman (1987-1996)
2. Creating Competition in the Communications Industry (1990)
3. Encouragement of Capital Investments law, (1992)
4. Structure of Banking System co-chairman (1993)
5. Economic Relations with the Palestinian Autonomy (1993)
6. Coordination of Capital Market Supervisory Authorities, chairman (1995)
7. Banks’ Holdings of Nonfinancial Corporations (1995)
8. Privatization of Monopolistic Infrastructures (1996)
9. A proposal to economic permanent status agreement between Israel and
the Palestinians, chairman (2000)
10. The Israeli bank’s control of the provident funds, chairman (2000)
11. Income Tax Reform, chairman (2000)
12. The electricity sector structure, co-chairman, (2001)
13. The Mutual Relations Between The Social Security Insurance and
The Labor Market, (2004)
14. Restructuring The Compulsory Military Service, chairman (2006)
15. Increasing competition in the financial sector (2015)
Negotiations on an Economic Agreement with the Palestinians
1. Headed the economic negotiation team for the Camp David peace talks (2000).
2. Heading the Israeli economic negotiation teams with the Palestinian Authority (1999-2000); concluded the economic agreement derived from the Wye River Memorandum;
3. Chairman of monetary team and member of economic team conducting negotiations in Paris (1994).
4. Head of Bank of Israel team preparing policy memoranda prior to negotiations with Palestinians.
Other Activities
Advisory committee chairman, Capital Market Authority, 2020 - 2017
Board member, The National Library, 2010 - 2017
Board member, The Israel Camerata, 2005- present
Board member, Jerusalem Music Center, 2005- present
Anti-trust Court member, 1998 -1999
Literature :
Drifting, a novel, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, February 2010, 239p (Hebrew).
Light Madness, a novel, Schocken Publishing House, 2018 (Hebrew).
Honors and Awards
2013 Knight of Quality Government
2003- 2004 President, The Israeli Economic Association
1978 The Association of Banks in Israel Prize