Profile
PhD. University of Basel
Beatrice Weder di Mauro joined the Institute in January 2019 as Professor of International Economics. She is President of CEPR, the leading European network of economists, and Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD. From 2001 to 2018 she held the Chair for International Macroeconomics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. From 2004 to 2012 she was a member on the German Council of Economic Experts. Previously she had worked at the University of Basel and the International Monetary Fund and has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the United Nations University in Tokyo.
She has served as consultant to governments, international organizations and central banks (European Commission, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, OECD, among others). She is presently independent director on the board of Bombardier, UBS and Bosch and senior research fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) in Singapore, a member of the ETH Foundation Council in Zurich and of the Bellagio Group.
Her research interests are in international macroeconomics. She has published widely in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Review of Finance. She writes regular op-eds and contributions to the public policy debate.
Expertise details
The International Monetary System ; European Monetary Union ; Currency Crises; Sovereign Debt, Financial Regulation, Institutions and Growth