Daniel Gros
Director of the Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University
Daniel Gros is Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University.
Between 2020 and 2022 he was Distinguished Fellow and Member of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Before that, was the director of CEPS from 2000. In 2020, he held a Fulbright fellowship and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In March-June, 2022 he was visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence.
Gros is also currently an adviser to the European Parliament. Previously he worked at the International Monetary Fund and collaborated with the European Commission as economic adviser to the Delors Committee, which developed plans for the euro. He has been a member of high-level advisory bodies to the French and Belgian governments and advised numerous central banks and governments, including Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the highest political level.
He has published extensively on international economic affairs, including on monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates, banking, and climate change. He is the author of several books and editor of Economie Internationale and International Finance. He has taught at several leading European universities and contributes a globally syndicated column on European economic issues to Project Syndicate. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Featured work
Talent grab: can the EU attract US scientists and innovators?
Ways for Europe to seize the moment and win over top-tier researchers
‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world
The European Union has the money to attract researchers under threat in the US and should coordinate a scheme to deploy it
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Event
28 October 2025
MFF in a new era: how to finance competitiveness, security and other European Public Goods
Bruegel’s 20th anniversary event in Rome, jointly organised with the Ministry of Economy and Finance
Podcast
14 May 2025
Talent grab: can the EU attract US scientists and innovators?
Ways for Europe to seize the moment and win over top-tier researchers
First Glance
08 May 2025
‘Project Einstein’: research excellence for Europe and the world
The European Union has the money to attract researchers under threat in the US and should coordinate a scheme to deploy it
Event
11 July 2024
Roundtable on the EU's countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicle imports
This closed-door event discussed the EU's countervailing duties on Chinese clean-tech products and their impact on EU-China trade
Event
24 November 2015
Completing the Banking Union
The Five Presidents’ report published in July 2015 argues that completing the banking union should be one of the most immediate steps of the broader p