Lecturer Dr. Borenstein-Nativ Keren

Dr. Keren Borenstein-Nativ serves as a lecturer and scholar at the Political Science Department and at the M.A. program in Administration and Public Policy. Her work interweaves her experience of working at Regulatory Affairs Departments (for 14 years between 2000-2014) in the Israeli financial and telecom industries. She holds a Ph.D. from the Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation focused on the structural power of the Israeli banks and their non-market strategies. Since the end of 2021 she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her current research focuses on two areas: The political economy of advanced payments systems and central banks