Manuel Trajtenberg is a Professor (Emeritus) of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and Senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute of the Technion. Previous public positions: Chairman of the National Economic Council at the Prime Minister’s Office (2006-09), Chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education (2009-2014), Chairman of the Committee for Socio-economic Change (2011), and member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament (2015-17).