Professor Dan Ben-David became the Executive Director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel in November 2008. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and is a faculty member of the Department of Public Policy at Tel-Aviv University. Ben-David’s areas of specialization are macroeconomics, economic growth and international trade. Dan Ben-David is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and a former Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has served as an adviser to the World Bank and to the Director-General’s Office at the World Trade Organization. Ben-David was ranked among the 1,000 most cited academic economists in the world and among the ten most cited economists in Israel during the years 1990-2000. In 2010, Dan Ben-David’s was named “Person of the Year” by the Calcalist newspaper and was included among the 100 most influential people in Israel by the Haaretz-TheMarker newspaper. In 2007, the Ha’ir newspaper ranked Ben-David among the 50 most influential people in Israeli education. Professor Dan Ben-David received the Tel-Aviv University provost’s “Best Teacher Award” in Social Sciences in 2004.