President (Emeritus) the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and
Professor (Emeritus) of economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Yaari
is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
Philosophical Association, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He
is a recipient of the Israel Prize in Economics (1987), the Rothschild Prize in
the Social Sciences (1994), and EMET Prize Laureate,
2012.
Prof. Yaari was a member of the Initiative steering committee since its foundation, he served
as its chairperson (2008 - 2022)
(Updated until 2014)