Beatrice Weder di Mauro

President

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London

Beatrice Weder di Mauro is President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She holds the André Hoffmann Chair in Climate and Nature Finance at the Geneva Graduate Institute and is a Visiting Professor at INSEAD.

Previously, she was a Research Professor at INSEAD in Singapore and, before that, held the Chair of International Macroeconomics at the University of Mainz. She served for a decade on the German Council of Economic Experts, advising the federal government on economic policy, and has regularly held advisory roles for governments and international institutions including the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, and the Deutsche Bundesbank. More recently, she has acted as a high-level advisor to the Presidency of the European Commission, served on Switzerland’s COVID-19 economic task force, and was a member of the expert group on post-crisis financial reforms following the collapse of Credit Suisse.

Parallel to her academic and policy work, Beatrice is an experienced board member. She currently serves as an independent director at Bosch in Stuttgart and Unigestion in Geneva. Her academic research focuses on international macroeconomics, sovereign debt and currency crises, banking regulation, and the economics of climate and nature. Her current policy work focuses on the economic consequences of the second Trump administration and on market design for nature restoration in emerging economies.