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Marcel Fratzscher

European Central Bank

Marcel.Fratzscher (at) ecb.int

Background and professional interests

Marcel Fratzscher grew up in Germany. He holds a Vordiplom degree in Economics from Kiel University, a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Marcel has been working for the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2001 as an Economist and subsequently as Senior Economist, and has been appointed Adviser in 2004, Senior Adviser in 2006, and Head of the International Policy Analysis Division in 2008. His prior full-time professional experience includes working at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. in 2000-01; at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) before and during the Asian financial crisis in 1996-98; and at the World Bank in 1996. He also spent shorter periods working in various parts of Asia, Africa and North America.

His larger research interest lies in bridging the gap between academic research and economic policy-making. Given the broad nature of Marcel’s policy responsibilities at the ECB, his research focuses on quite distinct issues in the fields of macroeconomics, international finance, monetary economics and international policy co-ordination. He is teaching “International Finance” in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.

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: November 2008.