SUERF Council of Management

Jakob de Haan is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Groningen. He has been Head of Research of De Nederlandsche Bank and also Scientific Director of SOM, the graduate school and research institute of the faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen. He graduated at the University of Groningen, where he also received his Ph.D. He has published extensively on issues like public debt, monetary policy, central bank independence, political and economic freedom and European integration. He is member of the editorial board of Public Choice, European Union Politics, and the Journal of International Money and Finance. He has been editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and President of the European Public Choice Society. De Haan has also been visiting professor at the Free University Berlin (2003/4), Kiel Institute (2002, 2010), and the University of Munich (1999). He is also research fellow of CESIfo.

Ernest Gnan is Secretary General of SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and Honorary Advisor to the Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Formerly, he was head of the OeNB’s Economic Analysis Division between 1999–2022; member of the European Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee from 2000–2022, and for over a decade expert member of the Austrian Fiscal Council; between 2010–2018 alternate member of the Austrian Competition Commission; giving numerous lectures on macroeconomics, monetary policy, EMU, European integration, and the financial and sovereign debt crisis. For several years he was adjunct professor at Webster University Vienna and lecturer at the German Association for Financial Analysts, and is currently a lecturer at both the University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Accountants. In 2019, he was awarded the title Professor by the President of the Republic of Austria.

Donato Masciandaro, born in Italy in 1961, has been a Full Professor of Economics since 2001. He holds the Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation at Bocconi University in Milan, and is Head of the Department of Economics. Since 2008, he has been Director of the BAFFI Center on International Markets, Money and Regulation. He is a member of the Council of Management and Honorary Treasurer of SUERF. He has served as a visiting scholar at the IMF Institute (International Monetary Fund), and has been a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations. He is Associated Editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. Donato Masciandaro's work has covered three main topics: central banking, financial regulation and supervision, illegal financial markets. His three most recent books are: The Handbook of Central Banking, Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis (ed.), 2011, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (with S. Eijffinger), Designing Financial Supervision Institutions: Independence, Accountability and Governance, (ed.), 2007, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (with M. Quintyn) and Black Finance. The Economics of Money Laundering, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, (with E. Takats and B. Unger).

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Roberto Blanco  has occupied the post of Executive Co-ordinator in the Macro-financial Analysis and Monetary Policy Department, DG Economics, Statistics and Research at the Banco de España since December 2018. Previously he held various managerial positions in the Bank’s Financial Studies Division, having joined as an economist in 1997. From 1991 to 1997, he was an economist in the C.N.M.V. Economic Analysis Division. Since 2007, he has sat as one of the Spanish delegates on the OECD Committee on Financial Markets. He is also a Member of the Board of Asociación Española de Finanzas (The Spanish Finance Association). He regularly writes articles on financial issues.

Esa Jokivuolle is Head of Research at the Bank of Finland.  He leads the research unit at the Monetary Policy and Research Department. The unit focuses on researching the interaction and stability of the macroeconomy and financial markets. Dr Jokivuolle has served the Bank of Finland in different positions since 1999 and has also been a visiting professor at Aalto University School of Business. He graduated in 1990 as M.Pol.Sc. from the University of Helsinki, majoring in economics, and received his doctorate (PhD) in the field of finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1996.

Frank Lierman is the former Chief Economist of Belfius Bank, having formerly held the role at Dexia Bank Belgium. Previously he worked at the Artesia Banking Corporation and its predecessor Paribas Bank Belgium in a number of capacities: Economic Research, Marketing, Organisation, Asset Management, Euro-Project. He is a member of the Council of Management of SUERF – the European Money and Finance Forum, serving on its Editorial Board and has been the Association"s Vice President. He is also co-president of the Coordination Committee of the Belgian Financial Forum (BFF) and serves as head of the BFF"s Revue bancaire et financière. He has authored numerous publications on the solvency and profitability of Belgian financial institutions, and on various financial and macroeconomic topics. He holds a degree in Economic Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven.

Michala Marcussen assumed the role of SG’s Group Chief Economist in September 2017 and leads a team of over 30 economists and sector engineer’s in her role as Head of Economic and Sector Research in the Risk Division. She is a member of Société Générale’s Group Management Committee and has been with the SG Group since 1994. With over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, she is a frequent commentator in the economic debate. Michala Marcussen holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and is a CFA charterholder. Michala is also Vice President of the SUERF (European Money and Finance Forum) Council of Management.

David T. Llewellyn is Professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School in London; Visiting Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; External Member, Centre for Cooperative Studies, Kellogg College, University of Oxford; Associate Senior Research Fellow, at the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels). He is Consultant Economist to ICAP plc. He has recently been working with several central banks on aspects of the global financial crisis and Resolution strategies. His recent research includes a project at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels on the economics and role of European cooperative banks, and a second project at the CEPS for the European Parliament on trends in European banking. In March 2011 he was appointed a member of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority, and elected as Vice Chairman in July. Previous career appointments include serving as an economist at Unilever (Rotterdam), HM Treasury (London), and the International Monetary Fund (Washington). Between 1994 and 2002 he was a Public Interest Director of the Personal Investment Authority (the UK regulator of retail financial services until it was superseded by the FSA).

He serves as a consultant to financial firms, management consultancy firms, and regulatory agencies in several countries including South Africa where, in 2004, he was appointed by the Minister of Finance to be a member of a Task Group to investigate competition in the South African Banking industry. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and has been a member of an IMF international advisory committee on governance in supervisory agencies. For several years he was a member of the London Advisory Board of the Halifax Building Society and has served as a consultant to the Building Societies Association and several mutual building societies in the UK. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Banking Report at the Italian Bankers Association and a member of the Academic Board of the International Centre for Financial Regulation in London. Between 2004 and 2008 he was a member of the Banking Panel of Bank Indonesia. In 2004 he was a consultant to HM Treasury on governance in life mutuals (Myners report), and was a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers team investigating the macro economic impacts of the Basel II Accord for the European Commission. In 2005-6 he was a member of the IESE Business School team commissioned by the EU Commission to investigate the retail banking industry in EU countries. He is a member of the Council of Management of SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum, and was President between 2000 and 2006. He has written extensively on the analysis of banking and financial markets and their regulation. Books include: Financial Regulation: Why, How and Where Now? (with Charles Goodhart and others), The Economic Rationale of Financial Regulation (FSA Occasional Paper No.1), Surveys in Monetary Economics, Vols 1 and 2 (with Chris Green), The New Economics of Banking, (SUERF Study, No. 5), and Islamic Banking and Finance (with M Iqbal), The Global Banking Crisis and the Post Crisis Banking and Regulatory Scenario. He has written extensively in journals and in conference proceedings including: Prompt Corrective Action: Ten Years On, and Market Discipline in Banking: Theory and Practice, both edited by George Kaufman.

Stefano Neri is Head of the Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy Directorate at the Bank of Italy. He was formerly Deputy Head of the Directorate and Head of the Monetary Analysis Division in the same Directorate. He is a member of the European Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee. He has published papers on macroeconomics and monetary policy, models with housing and financial frictions, macroprudential and fiscal policies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University “Pompeu Fabra”. 

Debora Revoltella is the Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank. The Department provides impact-driven economic analysis to support the EIB in its policy and strategy definition and in its operations, with a team of some 30 economists. The main publications include the EIB Annual Report on Investment and Investment Finance in Europe, regular Economic Notes on structural issues concerning the European economy, publications on the state of the banking sector of the different regions of operations of the EIB as well as the EIB Report on Results, which assesses the development impact of projects financed by the EIB. Since 2016, the Department in also in charge of the new EIB Survey on Investment and Investment Finance, targeting 12,000 European firms each year. Before joining the EIB, Debora was the Chief Economist for Central and Eastern Europe in UniCredit, managing a team of some 45 economists in the CESEE region. She holds a degree in Economics and a Master in Economics from Bocconi University as well as a PhD in Economics from the University of Ancona in Italy.
Debora is a member of the SUERF Council of Management, a member of the EURO50 scientific board and a member of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative and an alternate member of the Board of the Joint Vienna Institute.

Jens Ulbrich has been Head of the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank since 2009, having previously been Deputy Head and also having worked in the President's Office at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Since 2008 he has been a Member of the Council of Management of SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum. From 2000 – 2005 he worked at the German Council of Economic Experts in Wiesbaden, serving as Secretary General between 2003 and 2005. Previously he was an Economist in the Federal Chancellery and in the Economics Department of Dresdner Bank AG. He holds a Diploma in Economics and Political Sciences from the University of Cologne and Trinity College Dublin.

Natacha Valla is Dean of Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation. Previously she worked as Deputy Director-General for Monetary Policy at the ECB and taught at NYU. Between 2015 and 2018 Natacha Valla was Head of the Policy and Strategy Division of the EIB, a permanent member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (CAE). She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the groups LVMH, Accor, ASF/Cofiroute and Tikehau. She was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Global Economic Research between 2008 and 2014. Natacha Valla worked as an economist at the ECB between 2001 and 2008. She has also lectured in international economics at New York University and Sciences-Po Paris. In 2005, she was seconded to the Research Directorate of the Banque de France. She has also been a consultant for the IMF and the OECD, and taught at the Universities of Florence, Paris-Dauphine, H.E.C. and Sciences-Po Paris.
Natacha Valla received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence) in 2003.

Jean-Pierre Vidal is Chief Economic Adviser to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.  He headed the Policy and Strategy Division of the European Investment Bank until December 2019 and  was Counsellor to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from September 2016 to June 2019. He was previously Chief Economic Advisor to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and a member of the cabinet of the first President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. He held several positions at the European Central Bank: Head of the ECB Representative Office in Brussels (2011-2012), Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Strategy Division (2007-2011), and Head of the Fiscal Analysis Section (2004-2007). Before joining the ECB as economist in 2000, he worked as senior researcher at the ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’ (CNRS). Jean-Pierre holds an MBA from ESSEC business school (‘Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales’) and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

SUERF Presidents

2012-2018  Prof. Urs W. Birchler, Institut für Banking und Finance, UZH
2006-2012  Prof. Catherine Lubochinsky, University of Paris 2
2000-2006  Prof. David T. Llewellyn, Loughborough University
1997-2000  Prof. Franco Bruni, Bocconi University
1994-1997  Prof. Jean-Paul Abraham, Universities of Namur and Leuven
1991-1994  Prof. Christian de Boissieu, University of Paris I (Panthéon – Sorbonne)
1988-1991  Prof. Dr. Niels Thygesen, University of Copenhagen
1985-1988  Mr. J. Richard Sargent, London
1979-1982  Dr. Hans-Eckart Scharrer, Universität Hamburg
1976-1979  Mr. Raymond Bertrand
1973-1976  Prof. J. Stuart G. Wilson, Hull University
1968-1973  Prof. Dr. Hans W.J. Bosman, Tilburg University
1963-1968  Prof. Dr. Cornelis Franciscus (Cees) Scheffer, Tilburg University

Vice Presidents

2011-2017  Frank Lierman, Belgium Financial Forum I Belfius Bank
2006-2011  Dr. Philipp Hartmann, European Central Bank (ECB)
2000-2006  Dr. Jürgen Pfister, Bayerische Landesbank
1997-2000  Prof. Morten Balling, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
1994-1997  Prof. Franco Bruni, Bocconi University
1991-1994  Prof. Jean-Paul Abraham, Universities of Namur and Leuven
1988-1991  Prof. Christian de Boissieu, University of Paris I (Panthéon – Sorbonne)

Secretary Generals

2000-2006  Dr. Eduard Hochreiter, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
1997-2000  Joop van Kessel
1993-1996  Prof. Jacques Sijben, Tilburg University
1977-1993  Prof. Hans W.J. Bosman, Tilburg University
1973-1977  Prof. Dr. Cornelis Franciscus (Cees) Scheffer, Tilburg University
1968-1972  Prof. J. Stuart G. Wilson
1963-1967  Prof. Pierre Tabatoni, University of Paris

Honorary Treasurers
2009-2010  Hugo de Moor, KBC Asset Management
1989-2008  Eric Pollefliet, KBC Bank
1982-1989  Conrad Reuss
1971-1981  Robert Piloy
1966-1970  John Wadsworth
1963-1966  Alexandre Lamfalussy