Israel Central Bank Chief Resigns

January 29, 2013 Share Print 0

Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel is to step down on 30 June, two years before his term ends.

No reason has yet been given for his resignation.

Mr Fischer had previously served as chief economist of the World Bank and deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

He is due to hold a news conference on Wednesday, but said in a statement that he had already informed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prof Fischer is known to generations of economics students as the author along with David Begg and Rudiger Dornbusch of one of the standard text books in the subject.

He also advised Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on his thesis and taught European Central Bank governor Mario Draghi.

via BBC

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Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.