Biography

Other current responsibilities

2015-

Coordinator, Committee on Financial Integration, European Central Bank

2010-

Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Stability

2006-

Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, United Kingdom

2010-2014

Chairman, ESCB Macroprudential Research Network (MaRs)

1997-2006

Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom

Chairman Editorial Board of the ECB Working Paper series

Chairman ECB Lamfalussy Fellowship Program

Co-Editor ECB Research Bulletin

Member ECB Macroprudential Contact Group

Member ECB Committee on Financial Integration

Member Scientific Committee Fondation Banque de France

Education

1993-1996

Doctorat en Sciences Economiques, DELTA (ENS-EHESS-CNRS), Paris, France, European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics

1992-1993

MA in Economics (Monetary and Macroeconomics), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

1986-1992

Diplom in Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim, Germany

Professional experience

2011-

Deputy Director General - Directorate General Research, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

2011-2011

Principal Adviser - Directorate General Research, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

Chaired part-time professor for Macro-financial Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 2010

Vice President of SUERF, The European Money and Finance Forum, Vienna, Austria, 2006-2011

Head of the Financial Research Division at the European Central Bank, Directorate General Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 6/2004-3/2011

Principal of the Economic and Financial Research Unit at the European Central Bank, Directorate General Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 1/1999-5/2004

Senior Economist at the European Central Bank, Directorate General Research, General Economic Research Division, Frankfurt, Germany, 6/1998-12/1998

Economist at the European Monetary Institute, Monetary, Economics and Statistics Department, Stage Three Division, Frankfurt, Germany, 10/1997-5/1998

Research Fellow in Financial Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Financial Markets Group, London, United Kingdom, 10/1995-9/1997

Policy work: Contributions to ECOFIN Council, ECB Governing and General Council, ECB Executive Board, European Systemic Risk Board, European Commission fora, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, IMF Article IV consultations, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Bank of England Central Bank Governors’ Symposium, Center for European Policy Studies Chief Economist Meeting, European League for Economic Cooperation, ECB Monthly Bulletin and Annual Report, ECB Financial Stability Review, ECB Report on Financial Integration in Europe, ECB Review of the International Role of the Euro and other reports; Chair or member of various internal and external task forces and working groups

Awards

2002

First CEPR/European Summer Institute Prize for the best central bank research paper

1992

EU Commission scholarship "Human Capital and Mobility"

Teaching experience

1999-2005

Design and teaching of various courses and modules in finance, microeconomics, macroeconomics and international economics - European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

1992-1992

Market Economics - Eastern German civil servants after reunification, Riesa, Germany