Dr. Stephen Cecchetti

Biography

Stephen G Cecchetti is a Senior Research Consultant at the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance and holds the Rosen Family Chair in International Finance at Brandeis International Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Between 2008 and 2013, Cecchetti served as an economic adviser and head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements, where he played a significant role in global regulatory reform initiatives under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Financial Stability Board. Previously, he was a faculty member at the New York University Stern School of Business and spent 15 years in the Department of Economics at The Ohio State University. He also held the positions of Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1997 to 1999 and served as editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking from 1992 to 2001. Cecchetti has published extensively in academic and policy journals, is the author of a leading textbook on money and banking, and manages the blog Money and Banking. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and an honorary doctorate in economics from the University of Basel.

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