Dr. Sarit Menahem-Carmi is the Academic Director of The Center for Pension, Insurance and Economic Psychology. Sarit holds BSc and MSc in Environmental Economics and Management from the Hebrew University and a PhD in Economics from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Her research expertise is the Israeli economy mainly focusing on the aspects of pension systems, capital markets, and labor productivity. Her dissertation examined the impact of financial media on provident fund consumers and its contribution to efficient credit allocation. Related research projects examined the application of the Compulsory Pension Law for wage-earners in 2008 with respect to the predicted replacement rate for the current workforce and cross-country comparisons of pension systems (first and second pillar).

Sarit is also a senior Researcher at The Aaron Institute for Economic Policy, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) specializing in the field of labor productivity and regulation policy. Prior to her current position she worked as a Researcher at the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research; and taught “Securities and Financial Instruments” course for third year Environmental Economics majors in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the years 2007-2013 she worked for the “The Marker”, Haaretz Group’s business newspaper, ultimately as the editor of the capital markets section.