Marcel Fratzscher

European Central Bank

Marcel Fratzscher is Head of the International Policy Analysis Division of the European Central Bank (ECB). His division is responsible for preparing ECB policy positions on global economic issues, emerging economies and the international monetary system and its institutions. His academic research in macroeconomics, international finance, and monetary economics has been published in a number of leading academic journals.

His prior professional experience includes work at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 2000-01; before and during the Asian financial crisis in 1996-98 at the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia for the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID); and shorter periods at the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and in various parts of Asia and Africa.

He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI); a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; a B.A. in Philoso¬phy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, and a Vordiplom degree in Economics from Kiel University.