Rafi Melnick
רפי מלניק
Melnick in 2010
2nd President of Reichman University
Assumed office
December 2021
Acting: September 2021 – December 2021
Preceded byUriel Reichman
Personal details
Born1946/1947 (age 76–77)
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
University of California, Berkeley

Rafi Melnick (born 1946/1947; Hebrew: רפי מלניק) is an Israeli economist and academic administrator serving as president of Reichman University since 2021.

Life

Melnick was born in 1946 or 1947.[1] He completed a B.A. in economics and statistics and a M.A. in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979.[1] His dissertation was titled, An Econometric Study of Consumption with Unobservables.[2]

Melnick was a member of the economic council advisory committee of the Prime Minister of Israel's office.[3] He served as deputy director of research and a member of the monetary committee at the Bank of Israel.[3] He was a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3] Melnick's research focuses on economy of Israel, monetary economics, and applied econometrics.[3]

In 1998, he joined the faculty at Reichman University, serving as a professor in its Tiomkin School of Economics and the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.[3] Melnick founded the Tiomkin School and served as dean of the Lauder School.[3] He later served as the vice president of academic affairs.[3] In September 2021, he was named acting president following the retirement of founding president Uriel Reichman.[4] Melnick was appointed president in December that year.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Prof. Rafi is the new president of Reichman University". Reichman University. December 26, 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  2. ↑ Melnick, Rafi (1979). An Econometric Study of Consumption with Unobservables (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 21713222.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Faculty Profile". Reichman University. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  4. ↑ "Prof. Rafi Melnik has been appointed President of Reichman University". Israel Financial Insider. December 23, 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
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