Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Swiss economist

Date of Birth: 03-Aug-1965

Place of Birth: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Profession: economist, banker, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Italy, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Beatrice Weder di Mauro (born August 3, 1965) is a Swiss academic and businesswoman who is currently professor of economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Distinguished Fellow-in-residence at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD Singapore, and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Since 2018, she also serves as President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). From June 2004 to 2012, she was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.
She was the first woman and the first non-German in the council whose responsibility is to advise the German government on economic issues.
She has advised both the former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the current Chancellor Angela Merkel.
She also serves on the board of several major corporations, including UBS, Bombardier Inc.
and Robert Bosch GmbH.
Her research interests are in international macroeconomics, in particular financial crisis, global capital flows, financial regulation, sovereign debt, development and growth.
She has published widely in leading academic journals and writes regular op-eds and contributions to the public policy debate.