17 Facts About Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli economist who is currently the Galen L Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University.

Elhanan Helpman is a professor emeritus at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.

Elhanan Helpman was born in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyz SSR, in 1946 and immigrated with his family to Israel.

Elhanan Helpman had planned to study engineering, but soon changed his mind.

When Elhanan Helpman casually picked up the book to read, he simply could not stop.

Elhanan Helpman's voracious reading across multiple fields would characterize his approach to knowledge, allowing him to research in many different fields.

Elhanan Helpman is married to Ruth Helpman, and has two daughters.

Elhanan Helpman's contributions include studies of the balance of payments, exchange-rate regimes, stabilization programs and foreign debt.

Elhanan Helpman has studied the Israeli economy and has been an active participant in Israeli policy debates.

Elhanan Helpman was a member of the advisory board of the Bank of Israel, the Council for National Planning, and the National Council for Research and Development.

Elhanan Helpman has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and served as Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and as Editor of the European Economic Review.

Elhanan Helpman is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was a member of its council.

Elhanan Helpman delivered major invited lectures, such as the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton University, the Schumpeter Lecture of the European Economic Association, of which he is a fellow, the Walras-Bowley and Frisch Lectures of the Econometric Society and the Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Elhanan Helpman is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Elhanan Helpman was President of the Israeli Economic Association and President of the Econometric Society.

Elhanan Helpman was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Warsaw.

Elhanan Helpman received the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, the Bernhard Harms Prize, the Rothschild Prize, the EMET Prize, the Nemmers Prize, the Onassis Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, and the Israel Prize.