Raviv Alon

Alon Raviv is Director of the International MBA program at Bar Ilan University’s Graduate School of Business Administration. He joined the BIU faculty in the fall of 2012. Prof. Raviv has numerous publications in conference proceedings, books, and academic top tier journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Economics Letters, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Financial Stability, European Financial Management, and International Review of Financial Analysis. In the last decade he has been awarded three research grants from the Israel Science Foundation and one research grant from the United States Israel Binational Science Foundation.

Prof. Raviv currently also serves as a consultant to the Bank of Israel and as a member of the committee responsible for selecting bank directors in Israel. He received both his PhD and his master’s degree in finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest include derivatives, corporate finance, and the management of financial institutions. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty member at Brandeis International Business School from 2009 to 2012 and at Boston University from 2008 to 2009. Prof Raviv has extensive experience in the banking industry, including service as a senior Quant in the Analytical Development unit of Bank Hapoalim in Israel, as an economist at the Bank of Israel, and as a consultant for Percipio Capital.