Beatrice Pierluigi

Beatrice Pierluigi is with the European Central Bank since 2003. She is currently head of the Fiscal Analysis Section, in the Directorate General Economics. She is in charge of a team producing the fiscal forecasts of the euro area countries and working on EU governance issues. Prior to this, she has worked as Adviser in the same Directorate covering issues related to macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area and coordinated the ECB contribution to the Post Programme Surveillance for Spain. Previously, she worked as country desk for Italy and Portugal. Her interests and publications focus on macroeconomic imbalances, heterogeneity in a currency union, fiscal and structural issues. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of York.