STI Staff Members Bio
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Noam Gruber Mr. Noam Gruber joined the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI) in February 2023. Prior to that, he taught macroeconomics and international finance at the National School of Development at Peking University. From 2017 to 2021 Noam was a Senior Economist and Head of Research at the National Economic Council of Israel (Prime Minister’s Office), where he worked on policy in the fields of advanced payment systems, the tech sector, taxation policy, and economic relations with China, as well as conducted research and led pilot design and impact assessment. Prior to that Noam was a Senior Researcher at two Israeli policy think tanks – Taub and Shoresh, before which he taught macroeconomics at Dartmouth College. Noam’s current research interests are causality between growth and saving, tech sector FDI spillovers, the Chinese economy and advanced payment systems. Noam holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. |