Field of research: International Macroeconomics
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a Swiss economist and the President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 2018. She is also Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD Singapore, and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER).
Before joining CEPR, Beatrice Weder di Mauro served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2004 to 2012, becoming both the first woman and the first non-German to hold this position. Over the years, she has advised former German Chancellors Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel and served on the boards of several global corporations, including UBS, Roche, and ThyssenKrupp. She currently sits on the boards of Unigestion and Robert Bosch GmbH.
Her research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, sustainable finance, impact investment, financial crises, and sovereign debt. She has published widely in leading academic journals and contributes regularly to the public policy debate through op-eds and media commentary.
Weder di Mauro earned her Doctorate and Habilitation in Economics from the University of Basel. Her career includes positions at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and United Nations University, as well as visiting roles at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
She has also served as a consultant to numerous international organizations, including the IMF, World Bank, OECD Development Centre, European Commission, and European Central Bank. In 2020, she was appointed by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe to the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti.
(Last updated September 2025)
Julián P. Díaz
Julián P. Díaz is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the fields of international trade and international macroeconomics, focusing on the effects of trade and financial liberalization in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
Elina Ribakova
Elina Ribakova is currently Vice President for Foreign Policy at the Kyiv School of Economics. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a nonresident fellow at Bruegel.
Her research focuses on global markets, economic statecraft, and economic sovereignty. She has been a senior adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security (2020–23) and a research fellow at the London School of Economics (2015–17).
Ribakova has over 25 years of experience with financial markets and research. She has held several senior level roles, including deputy chief economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, managing director and head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Research at Deutsche Bank in London, leadership positions at Amundi (Pioneer) Asset Management, and director and chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth for Independent States (CIS) at Citigroup. Prior to that, Ribakova was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington (1999–2008) working on financial stability, macroeconomic policy design for commodity-exporting countries, and fiscal policy.
Ribakova holds a master of science degree in Economics from the University of Warwick (1999), where she was awarded the Shiv Nath prize for outstanding academic performance, and a master of science degree in data science from the University of Virginia (May 2023).
(Last updated March 2024)