The new governor of the Bank of Israel (Israel's equivalent of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank) is African-American:
An American citizen and former Citigroup Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer was chosen to fill in the vacancy of the governor of the Bank of Israel. The decision was made by Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu and needs to win approval from the committee overseeing the appointment of top officials.
He was born in Zambia:
Posted by David Boxenhorn at May 6, 2005 12:08 AM | TrackBacksMr. Fischer was born in Zambia in 1943. He took the B.Sc (Econ) and M.Sc. (Econ) at the London School of Economics from 1962-66, and obtained his Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1969. He was Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago until 1973, when he returned to the MIT Department of Economics as an Associate Professor. He became Professor of Economics in 1977. He has held visiting positions at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.