About
POSITIONS:
International Monetary Fund, since 2017
Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Leadership of IMF’s work on financial sector surveillance, monetary and macroprudential policies, digital money, financial regulation, bank resolution, sovereign debt, capital markets, and climate finance
Management of the capacity building activities in IMF member countries related to the supervision and regulation of financial systems, bank resolution, central banking, monetary and exchange rate regimes, central bank digital currencies, and debt management
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2003-2016
Associate Director of Research (2015-16), Head of Capital Markets Research (2012-15)
Senior Vice President (2013-16), Vice President (2010-13), Assistant Vice President (2009-10), Research Officer (2008-09), Senior Economist (2006-08), Economist (2003-06)
Policy work on monetary policy, financial stability, crisis management, supervision, monetary operations
Research on monetary policy, financial stability, asset valuations, regulation
Centre for European Policy Studies, 1995-96
Research Analyst
Policy advice on monetary policy and trade
EDUCATION:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD Economics, 2003
London School of Economics, MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1998
Goethe University Frankfurt, Diplom Economics, 1995
Dauphine University Paris, Deug 1993, License 1994, Maîtrise Applied Economics,1995
Humboldtschule Bad Homburg, Abitur Mathematics and Literature, 1991
TEACHING:
New York University, Stern School of Business, 2013, 2014, 2015
Adjunct Professor, Monetary Policy, Central Banks, and Banks, MBA
Princeton University, Bendheim Center for Finance, 2006, 2011
Visiting Lecturer, Portfolio Theory, Masters in Finance
Seoul National University, Graduate School of Business, 2007
Visiting Professor, Investments, Global MBA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000 - 2003
Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics, Ph.D. and undergraduate, 14.462, 14.05, 14.02
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Best Paper Award, Financial Management, 2019
American Finance Association’s Distinguished Amundi Smith Breeden Best Paper Prize, 2016
Best Referee Award, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2015
President’s Award for Excellence of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2013
Research Fellow of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University, 2012
Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), since 2011
Research Affiliate of the Volatility Institute (NYU), 2008
Institute for Quantitative Investment Research Award, 2007 – 2008
WFA/CRA International Award for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 2007
President’s Award for Excellence of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2005
Robert Solow Foundation Graduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 - 2000
Fellow of the German Foreign Academic Exchange Service, 1997 - 1998
Chevening Fellow of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1996 - 1997
Fellow of the Franco-German College of Higher Education, 1994 - 1995
EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2012 - 2024
International Journal of Central Banking, 2016 - 2024
FOUNDING MEMBERSHIPS:
Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE)
Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE)
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NATIONALITIES:
Germany and United States, born July 23, 1971, Kronberg, Taunus