A Conversation with European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel

Isabel Schnabel has been a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2020 and is responsible for Market Operations, Research and Statistics. She is currently on leave from the University of Bonn, where she has been Professor of Financial Economics since 2015. From 2014 to 2019 she served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, and in 2019 she was Co-Chair of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on financial stability, banking regulation, central banking, international capital flows and economic history and was published in renowned journals, such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Economic History. In 2018 she was awarded the Gustav Stolper Prize of the Verein for Socialpolitik, the association of German-speaking economists. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and at the CESifo in Munich. Moreover, she is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Introduction by Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Moderated by Sassan Ghahramani, Founder and CEO of SGH Macro Advisors, with panelists Richard Clarida, C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve; and Patricia C Mosser, Senior Research Scholar and former NY Fed and Treasury official.

Photos from the event: