Prof. Eugene Kandel is the Head of the National Economic Council at the Prime Minister's office of Israel and serves as the economic advisor to the Prime Minister.  Kandel is a professor at the School of Business and the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  He is also a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University, a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy in London, and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.  He is the founder of the Center for Financial Markets and Institutions, and of the MA program in Finance and Financial Economics, both at the Hebrew University.

Prof. Kandel’s primary area of expertise is Financial Markets and Financial Intermediaries. His current research focuses on performance of stock exchanges, and includes theoretical and empirical studies of stock markets around the world focusing on market design, the institutional trading patterns, and order execution quality for institutional investors. Kandel was actively involved (as a researcher and as a consultant) in the 1994-1997 Nasdaq controversy, and the subsequent redesign of the Nasdaq Order Handling Rules.