2026 ECB Forum – list of participants

Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund

Chief Economist and Economic Counselor, Inter-American Development Bank

Director General Economics, European Central Bank

Senior Counsellor to the Vice-President, European Central Bank

Governor, Norges Bank

First Deputy Governor, Banca Naţională a României

Governor, Bank of England

Journalist, Les Echos

Adviser to the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Vice Chair for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Deputy Director General Communications, European Central Bank

Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Bank of England

Head of European Macro Strategy, Balyasny Asset Management

Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

Journalist, Observador

Senior European Economics Correspondent, Reuters

Professor of Finance, Bocconi University

Managing Director and Chief Global Economist, Morgan Stanley

Professor, Toulouse Capitole University

Professor, Brandeis University 

Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund

Chief Economist, OpenAI

Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Senior Team Lead Economist, European Central Bank

Former Vice-President, European Central Bank

Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Professor, London School of Economics

Governor, Bank Ċentrali ta’ Malta/Central Bank of Malta

Professor, European University Insitute

PhD Candidate, Bocconi University

Senior Team Lead Economist, European Central Bank

Governor, Banka Slovenije

Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification, European Commission

Member of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Anchor, CNBC

Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank

Governor, Banco de España

PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania 

Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

President, German Institute for Economic Research

Lead Economist, European Central Bank

Senior Researcher, CREI, and and Professor, Pompeu Fabra University

Market Infrastructure Expert, European Central Bank

Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, World Bank Group

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Professor, Bilkent University

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Deputy Director General Economics, European Central Bank

Head of Climate Change Centre, European Central Bank

General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Managing Director and Europe Economist, Bank of America

PhD Candidate, University of Mannheim

Director General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability, European Central Bank

Former Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Director, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

US Economics Editor, Financial Times

Governor, Eesti Pank

Professor, Brown University

Deputy Director General Monetary Policy, European Central Bank

Governor, Latvijas Banka

Governor, Národná banka Slovenska

Head of Economics Research, Barclays

Governor, South African Reserve Bank

Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Prospects Group, World Bank Group

Governor, Danmarks Nationalbank

Anchor and Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg TV

Director General Research, European Central Bank

President, European Central Bank

Adviser Financial Regulation and Policy, European Central Bank

Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Governor, Bank of Canada

Head of Financial Markets Research Section, European Central Bank

PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Correspondent, El País

PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank

PhD Candidate, Princeton University

Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University 

Governor, Česká národní banka

Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, CREI and Barcelona School of Economics

Governor, Banque de France 

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

President, Deutsche Bundesbank

Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Reporter, The New York Times

Senior Advisor, Independent Economics

Professor, University of Bern 

PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge

PhD Candidate, London Business School

European Economics Editor, The Economist

Professor, University of Zurich

Deputy Governor, Magyar Nemzeti Bank

Governor, Banca d’Italia

Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 

Governor, Central Bank of Cyprus

President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Governor, Banco de Portugal

Professor, University of California, Davis

Professor, University of Amsterdam

Deputy Director General International and European Relations, European Central Bank

Counsellor to the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Professor, London Business School

Director General Communications, European Central Bank

Governor, Българска народна банка (Bulgarian National Bank)

Director General Market Operations, European Central Bank

Senior Correspondent, Bloomberg

Professor, Paris School of Economics

Editor, Handelsblatt

Deputy Director General - Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, European Commission

Governor, Suomen Pankki – Finlands Bank

Professor, London Business School

Professor, London School of Economics

Chief Economist, European Investment Bank, and Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Professor, London Business School

Professor, University of Oxford

Head of the Digital Currency Analysis Team, Bank of Korea

Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy, Vanguard

Economics Editor, NRC Handelsblad

Principal Economist, European Central Bank

Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Professor, University of Munich, and Chair, German Council of Economic Experts

President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy 

PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Governor, Bank of Korea

Director of Macro Policy, Rokos Capital Management 

President, De Nederlandsche Bank

Chief Economist, Apollo Global Management 

Deputy Head of Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division, European Central Bank

Deputy Director General Research, European Central Bank

Frankfurt Bureau Chief, Financial Times

Governor, Bank of Greece

Deputy Director General Market Operations, European Central Bank

Chief Economist, European Stability Mechanism

Professor, London School of Economics

Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

Former Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Professsor, University of Manchester

Principal Counsellor to the President, European Central Bank

Professor, IESE Business School

Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

Vice Chairman, Millennium Capital Partners

Vice-President, European Central Bank

Managing Director and Chief European Economist, Deutsche Bank 

Board Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

President, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Correspondent, CNBC International

Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Governor, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique

PhD Candidate, Pompeu Fabra University

Director, Bruegel 

Governor, Hrvatska narodna banka