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I have been working for the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2001 as an Economist and subsequently as Senior Economist, and have been appointed Adviser in 2004, Senior Adviser in 2006 and Head of the International Policy Division in 2008. My main responsibilities lie in working on and managing a division of 22 staff members on global systemic economic and financial issues, emerging markets and the international monetary system; helping formulate the ECB's policy positions on these issues; and in doing and co-ordinating research on international financial and monetary topics. Given the broad nature of my policy work, my own research has focused on quite distinct issues in the fields of macroeconomics, international finance, monetary economics and international policy co-ordination. In addition to my full-time position at the ECB, I am teaching “International Finance” in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.

 

My most recent papers are on international financial market linkages and sustainable current account positions, on central bank communication, on monetary policy and asset prices, on exchange rate policy and on capital flows. The papers have been published in academic journals including Journal of International Economics, The Economic Journal, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Economic Literature and Economic Policy. I have been awarded the Kiel Institute 2006/2007 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs (for economists age 35 or under) for my work on international financial linkage and monetary policy, and the CEPR 2007 Prize for the Best Central Bank Research Paper.

 

My prior full-time professional experience includes being a visiting researcher at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. in 2000-01; working as a Macroeconomic Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in 1996-98 before and during the Asian financial crisis; and as a Consultant at the World Bank in 1996. I also spent shorter periods working at Mwaniki Associates Consultants in Kenya, the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines, the World Bank, and the American Institute of Economic Research (AIER).

 

As to my educational background, I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy; a Master of Public Policy in International Trade and Finance 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, Germany.

 

I am a European citizen, having grown up and having obtained my primary and secondary education in Germany.