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Prof. Karnit Flug
William Davidson Senior Fellow for Economic Policy, Center for Governance and the Economy
Prof. Karnit Flug completed her five-year term as Governor of the Bank of Israel in November 2018. In March 2019 she joined the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University.
As Governor, Prof. Flug oversaw the design and implementation of Israel's monetary policy and served as the Economic Advisor to the government. She was widely credited for maintaining stability and supporting growth in the Israeli economy.
Prior to her appointment as Governor, Prof. Flug was the Bank of Israel’s Deputy Governor from July 2011. Between July 2013 and November 2013, she served as Acting Governor.
Previously, Prof. Flug became Director of the Research Department and Chief Economist of the Bank of Israel in June 2001 – a position she held for 10 years. She published numerous papers on macroeconomic policies, the labor market, balance of payments and social policies. In 1984, Prof. Flug started as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, before returning to Israel to join the Research Department of the Bank of Israel in 1988. In 1994–96, while on leave from the Bank of Israel, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. as a Senior Research Econo
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Governor of the year: Karnit Flug
Israel has always occupied a complex geopolitical and economic niche. There remains the constant possibility of conflict with Palestine, and potentially other nearby states, while the small, open economy is exposed to the vicissitudes of international markets.
The Bank of Israel occupies a similarly delicate position, charged with maintaining price stability but also, less usually for a central bank, with offering candid economic advice to the government of the day. The various coalitions led by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have often – like many governments – been tempted by short-term priorities, and the Bank of Israel has frequently found itself at odds with lawmakers. Meanwhile, the central bank maintains ties with its counterpart in Palestine, to which it supplies shekel banknotes, even as political relations have been frosty and blood has been spilled.
Such treacherous waters call for a particularly skilful kind of central banker, and Karnit Flug demonstrated her mettle in 2018 and during her five years leading the Israeli central bank. Over the course of her governorship, which capped a 30-year career at the Bank of Israel, she delivered major reforms to the banking sector, laid the foundations of a financial stability committee
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