Advisory Board
Dr. Sokoler has specialized in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Money and Banking. He currently serves as a Present, Member of the Administrative Enforcement Committee of the Israeli Security Authority and as external advisor for the International Monetary Fund performing technical assistance missions to various Central Banks.
At the Bank of Israel, Dr. Sokoler served in various capacities including as Senior Economist, Research Department; Deputy Director of the Research Department; Alternate governor on behalf of Israel at the I.M.F.; Director, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; Director of the Monetary Department; Deputy Governor; and Acting Governor.
In academia Dr. Sokoler served as Visiting Associate Professor, City University of NY at Hunter College; ,Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut at Storrs; and professor at New York University and Keans College.
Dr. Sokoler received his B.A, M.A., and PhD from New York University.
Selected publications include: "Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Regimes; Evidence from the Financial” Markets (coauthored with Menachem Brenner), Finance Review, vol14, number 5, April 2010; "Approaching a Decade of No Foreign Exchange Intervention––Lessons from Israel," Foreign Exchange Market Intervention in Emerging Markets: Motives, Techniques and Implications, BIS Papers No. 24, 2005; "Globalization and its Effects on Monetary Policy: The Case of Israel," Globalization and Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets, BIS Papers No. 23, 2005; and “The Interaction between Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Israel," Fiscal Issues and Central Banking in Emerging Economies, BIS Papers No. 20, 2003.