Eugene [Yevgeny] Kandel (Hebrew: יוג'ין קנדל; born 1959, in Moscow) is an Israeli economist, Emil Spyer Professor (Emeritus) of Economics and Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the chairman of the Board of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

From 1989 to 1997 Kandel was a professor of economics at the William Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.

Kandel is a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Between 2015-21, Kandel was the CEO of Start-Up Nation Central, a non-profit organization that links the world's challenges to Israeli technological innovations that can help address them.

In July 2023, Kandel was appointed chairman of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.