Yael is General Counsel and a Member of the Board of Management at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s leading financial institution.
Yael served on the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) in Boston, where she chaired the Audit and Finance Committee. Previously, Yael was Executive Director at the IFRS Foundation in London, playing a senior role in global financial reporting and governance. Earlier in her career, she led the Department of International Affairs at the Israel Securities Authority and served for over a decade as a prosecutor in the Securities Crimes Division at the Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office within Israel’s Ministry of Justice.
Yael is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University.