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Marcel Fratzscher

European Central Bank

Marcel.Fratzscher (at) ecb.int

Background and professional interests

Marcel Fratzscher is Head of the International Policy Analysis Division of the European Central Bank (ECB). His division is responsible for the preparation of ECB policy positions in three areas: on global systemic economic and financial issues (including global capital markets, trade, exchange rates, global macroprudential developments), on emerging economies in Asia and in Latin America as well as on the whole range of issues related to the international monetary system and its institutions.

Mr. Fratzscher’s division of 24 staff members has a strong analytical foundation and focus. His own research covers a broad range of distinct issues in the fields of macroeconomics, international finance, monetary economics and international policy co-ordination. This work has been published in a number of leading academic journals. He has been awarded the Kiel Institute Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs in 2007 for his work on global financial linkages and monetary policy, and the CEPR 2007 Prize for the Best Central Bank Research Paper for his work on asset price bubbles and global imbalances.

His prior full-time professional experience includes being a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. in 2000-01. Before and during the Asian financial crisis in 1996-98, he worked in Indonesia as a Macroeconomic Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). He also spent shorter periods working at Mwaniki Associates in Kenya, the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines, and the World Bank in the US.

He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy; a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, Trinity College; and a Vordiplom degree in Economics from Kiel University. He is a European citizen, having grown up and having obtained his primary and secondary education in Germany.

Disclaimer: This is my personal homepage, and any views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Central Bank or the Eurosystem.

Last modified: June 2010.