Prof. Miriam Schwartz-Ziv

Prof. Schwartz-Ziv is the Chief Economist and Head of the Economic and Strategy Department at the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) and an Associate Professor of Finance at the Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ​At the ISA, she leads the Authority's economic research and analysis and provides policy advice on financial regulation, the structure and performance of the Israeli capital markets, corporate governance, and issues affecting the development of Israel's financial markets.

 

Prof. Schwartz-Ziv is also a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Program on Corporate Governance and at the Kennedy School at Harvard, and a Visiting Professor in the Finance Department at MIT. She has published research papers in leading academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics and is an associate editor of three academic journals: Financial Management, Financial Review, and the Leadership Quarterly.  She was previously an assistant professor of finance at Michigan State University. Prof. Schwartz-Ziv specializes in corporate governance, ESG, boards, controlling shareholders, institutional investors, shareholder votes, and shareholder meetings.

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Prof. Schwartz-Ziv has won several prestigious and large grants, including from the European Research Council (ERC) and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), amounting to $1.8 million. Before her academic career, Prof. Schwartz-Ziv worked as a privatization economist and was the head of the energy unit at Israel's Governmental Companies Authority (GCA). She was the GCA's representative on several boards of directors, including the Electric Corporation and the Postal Company. Prof. Schwartz-Ziv is currently an advisor to the research department at the Bank of Israel, and on the board and investment committee of “Heatid”.