EUI alumni at the ECB

As reported by Cosimo Pancaro, Tuomas Peltonen and Matthias Rau-Goehring, there is a thriving community of EUI alumni at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.

While most of the 24 alumni at the ECB are economists, all four departments of the EUI and the RSCAS are represented among them. The network meets regularly for lunch, and acts as an invaluable resource to EUI alumni arriving in or visiting Frankfurt for the first time.  The EUI/ECB connection is also kept alive by the stream of EUI alumni and professors who are invited there for seminars and visits, as well as the researcher interns who visit the ECB during the course of their research.

Below is a round-up of the 24 alumni now working at the ECB.

Andreas Beyer joined the ECB’s Research Department as Economist in December 2000. He works currently as Principal Financial Stability Expert in the Directorate Financial Stability.  From 1999-2000 Andreas was first visiting Professor (Econometrics) at the EUI’s Economics Faculty and then Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre.

Carlos Bowles joined the ECB in December 2003 as an Economist. He is serving a Staff Representative mandate since 2008 and currently chairs the ECB Staff Committee (an elected body of 9 representing the interests of all ECB Staff) on a full-time basis. Carlos was in the EUI Economics Department from 2000-2003.

Inês Cabral joined the ECB in July 2001 and works currently as a Principal Financial Stability Expert in the Financial Stability Assessment Division of the Directorate General Financial Stability. Inês was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1997-2000.

Giovanni Callegari joined the ECB in May 2011 and he is an economist in the Fiscal Policy Division of the Directorate General Economics. Giovanni was at the Economics Department of the EUI between 2002 and 2007.

Fiorella De Fiore joined the ECB in March 1999 and works as a Principal economist in the Financial Research Division of the Directorate General Research. Her fields of interest are macroeconomics, monetary economics and macrofinancial linkages. Fiorella was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1995-1998.

Michael Ehrmann joined the ECB in September 2000 and works as Head of Division of the Financial Research Division of the Directorate General Research. Michael was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1996-2000.

Stephan Fahr joined the ECB in September 2007 as a Graduate Programme Participant. Following a year in Research and a year following euro area Macroeconomic developments, he now works in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division. Stephan was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 2002-2006.

Arto Kokkinen joined the ECB in September 2012. He is working in the Macroeconomic Statistics Division of Directorate General Statistics. Arto studied Economic History in the History and Civilization Department from 2006-2011.

Jan Hannes Lang joined the ECB in September 2012 through its Graduate Program. During the first year of the Program he is assigned to the Monetary Policy Stance Division of the Directorate General Economics and in the second year he will be assigned to the Financial Stability Surveillance Division of the Directorate General Financial Stability. Jan Hannes studied at the Economics Department of the EUI from 2008 – 2012.

Marta Lopez Torres joined the ECB in 2000 as a Legal Counsel and is now the Deputy Head of the Institutional Law Division in the Directorate General Legal Services. Marta was at the Law Department of the EUI from 1991 to 1995.

Alberto Musso joined the ECB in September 2000 and works currently as a Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Stance Division of the Directorate General Economics. Alberto was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1996-2000.

Stefano Nardelli joined the ECB in May 1999. After previous experiences in the Directorate General Statistics, in the Monetary Policy Stance Division of the Directorate General Economics and in the Press and Information Division of the Directorate Communications, he currently works as a Senior Economist in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the Directorate General Economics. Stefano was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1992 to 1995.

Derry O’Brien moved to the ECB in September 2012 on secondment from the Central Bank of Ireland and works in the Euro Area Macroeconomic Developments Division of the Directorate Economic Developments. Derry was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1997-2001.

Luca Onorante joined the ECB in January 2003 and is an Economist in the Economics Directorate of the European Central Bank. Luca was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1998-2002.

Chiara Osbat joined the ECB in December 2004 and works currently as a Principal Economist in the Euro Area Macroeconomic Developments Division of the Directorate General Economics. Chiara was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1996-2000.

Cosimo Pancaro joined the ECB in September 2011 and currently works as Graduate Programme participant in the Financial Stability Assessment Division of the Directorate General Financial Stability.  Cosimo completed his PhD at the Economics Department of the EUI in December 2010.

Ellinoora Peltonen joined the ECB in September 2010 and currently works as a Graduate Programme participant in the Central Procurement Office. Ellinoora was at the Law Department of the EUI from 2004-2010.

Tuomas Peltonen joined the ECB in January 2004 and works currently as a Principal Financial Stability Expert in the Financial Stability Surveillance Division of the Directorate General Financial Stability. Tuomas was in the Economics Department of the EUI from 2000-2003.

Matthias Rau-Göhring, joined the ECB in March 2011 and works currently as an Economist in the International Policy Analysis Division of the Directorate International and European Relations. Matthias was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 1998-2002.

Janusz Ryzner joined the ECB in September 2009 and works currently as a Market Infrastructure Expert in the TARGET and Collateral Division of the Directorate General Payments & Market Infrastructure. Janusz was at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the EUI from 2003-2008.

Roland Straub joined the ECB in October 2006, and works as a Principal Economist in the International Policy Analysis Division of the Directorate General International and European Relations. Before joining the ECB, he spent 2 years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Roland was at the Economics Department of the EUI from 2000-2004.

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira joined the ECB in 1998 and works as Counsellor to the Executive Board. Pedro was in the EUI Law Department from 1995 to 1998.

Bernhard Winkler joined the ECB in July 1998 and currently is a Senior Adviser in the Directorate Monetary Policy [having served as Counsel to the Executive Board from 2001- 2005]. Bernhard holds an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford and was at the EUI for his doctorate from 1993-1997.

Chiara Zilioli joined the EMI in July 1995 after working since 1989 in the Legal Service of the EU Council, and was appointed Head of Division in the Legal Services of the ECB at its establishment in June 1998. She is currently the Deputy Director General of the Legal Services. Chiara did her PhD in the Law Department at EUI from 1985 to 1988.

 

*Feature image by Bob Hidy, ©Bob Hidy