Christian Upper

Bank for International Settlements

Christian Upper is Head of Financial Markets in the Bank for International Settlements' Monetary and Economic Department and editor of the BIS Quarterly Review. He joined the Bank in 2005 as a Senior Economist in the Financial Markets unit, served as Head of Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates before moving to his present position in August 2009. Previously, he worked at the Deutsche Bundesbank. He holds a Doctorate in Economics of the European University Institute in Florence and Master degrees of the Universities of Edinburgh and Warwick. His research spans the areas of financial intermediation, market microstructure and macroeconomics, and has been published in academic journals as well as Bundesbank and BIS publications.