Luc Laeven

Luc Laeven is the Director-General of the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank. Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His research focuses on banking and international finance issues, and has been widely published in academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

He is a Professor of Finance at Tilburg University, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Chair of the ESCB Heads of Research Committee, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Member of the Board of Directors of TalentNomics. He studied at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the London School of Economics.