Shmuel Hauser

Shmuel Hauser was born in 1955

Hauser was born in 1955 and grew up in Ramle. He played on Israel's youth national basketball team. He is married and has 4 children.

He joined the IDF in 1973 and served in the 890th Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade, leaving in 1977 as an officer. He earned a B.A. in statistics and economics in 1980 and an MBA in finance in 1982, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1987.

He worked as a senior economist at the Bank of Israel and in 1989 became chief economist of the Israel Securities Authority. He joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1995 and became a full professor there in 2005. From 2007 to 2011 he was dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Ono Academic College.

In May 2011 Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz appointed him chairman of the Israel Securities Authority. His term saw increased enforcement and criminal investigations, including the Bezeq probe that later became Case 4000. He also led a change in the ownership structure of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and finished his term in January 2018.

In 2019 he received an award from the Movement for Quality Government. He later joined Yuval Aloni and Nir Zuk in founding Bank Esh Israel, which he chairs.