Yair Seroussi is chairman of the Bank Hapoalim, a position he has held since 2009. He served as a board member and as chairman of the Audit Committee of the bank from 1997 through 2002. Seroussi was the founder and head of Morgan Stanley Israel. He served as the chairman of the Investment Committee of Mivtachim, Israel's largest pension fund, and founded a number of private investment funds. Seroussi served as a director of Israel Corp. and Frutarom Industries. He still acts as a director in DSPG. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University. Seroussi served over a decade in Israel's Ministry of Finance, where he held several senior positions and helped establish the Yozma program, which created the venture capital funds industry in Israel. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the Hebrew University.

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The Israeli Paradox: Accelerating Growth/Overcoming Inequality