Among those who formulated the program and propelled it forward were the then Prime Minister Mr Shimon Peres, the then Finance Minister the late Yitzhak Modai, my friends the late Professors Michael Bruno, who became Governor of the Bank of Israel, Eitan Berglas and Herbert Stein, and Emmanuel Sharon, Professor Nissan Liviatan and many others.
For me, marking twenty years since the ESP closes an important circle, not only because since I participated in it I have become the Governor of the Bank of Israel.