Guy Rolnik

Guy Rolnik was born in 1968

Guy Rolnik was born on September 2, 1968, in north Tel Aviv to Amos and Rivka Rolnik. His brother is the psychiatrist and historian Eran Rolnik. He graduated from Tichon Hadash high school.

He earned a BA in economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from the Kellogg-Recanati program of Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

After his release from the army in 1990, he joined Haaretz as an economics reporter and later founded its capital market section. From January 1994 he wrote a daily column called Market Value. In 1998 he became the paper's economics editor and joined its editorial board.

In 2000 he founded TheMarker with TheStreet.com and the Haaretz group, as a financial news website. In 2005 he led its launch as a printed daily, and in 2007 he became deputy publisher of the Haaretz group. He was TheMarker's editor in chief until 2013.

His writing focused on concentration of capital and competition in the Israeli economy, including a campaign for competition in mobile telephony. He won the Sokolov Award in 2013. He is a clinical associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and lives in Nahalal with his wife Naama and their 3 children.