Stanley Fischer is one of the world’s most respected economists. In the late 1980s, he was chief economist at the World Bank; later he was thesis adviser to US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke while teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was former first deputy managing director of the IMF during much of the 1990s and was a key figure in the Fund’s handling of the Asia financial crisis. Fischer also held various senior positions at Citigroup in the early 2000s.
In 2005 he emigrated to Israel to become governor of the central bank, the Bank of Israel.
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