Professor Zvi Eckstein currently serves as the Head of the Aaron Economic Policy Institute at Reichman University, and is a visiting professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise encompasses various areas of economics, including Israeli economics broadly, as well as labor economics, monetary and macro economics, Jewish economic history, and development, growth & population. He previously served as Dean of Tiomkin school of Economics at Reichman University, Deputy Governor Bank of Israel and he is emeritus professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University. Professor Eckstein is a Fellow at Econometric Society and gave the Walras-Bowley lecture at the Econometric society and served as editor of the European Economic Review. Professor Eckstein has been the chair of several professional Israeli government committees that designed economic policies and is advising the Israeli government on regular basis for many years.