Michael Bruno | |||||||||
Office: | Chief Economist of the World Bank | ||||||||
President: | Lewis Preston | ||||||||
Term Start: | 1993 | ||||||||
Term End: | 1996 | ||||||||
Predecessor: | Lawrence Summers | ||||||||
Successor: | Joseph Stiglitz | ||||||||
Birth Name: | Michael Peter Bruno | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 1932 7, df=y | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Hamburg, Germany | ||||||||
Death Place: | Jerusalem, Israel | ||||||||
Education: | Hebrew University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (MA) Stanford University (PhD) | ||||||||
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Michael Peter Bruno (Hebrew: מיכאל ברונו) (30 July 193226 December 1996)[1] was an Israeli economist. He was governor of the Bank of Israel and a former World Bank Chief Economist.
Michael Peter Bruno was married to Ofra Hanoch (née Hirshenberg), with whom he had three children, daughter Yael and sons Ido and Asa. He died of cancer at home in Jerusalem.[1] He is survived by his second wife Netta (née Ben-Porath).