Ivo Maes

Ivo Maes is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in European monetary integration and the history of central banking.

He covers the history and development of European economic and monetary union (EMU), the euro and the international monetary system. He has also published extensively on the life and intellectual works of Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin.

He speaks English, Dutch, German, Italian and French.

He is a Professor at ICHEC Brussels Management School. He was formerly a professor and Robert Triffin Chair at the Université catholique de Louvain. Previously, he worked as Visiting Professor at Duke University, Université de Paris-Sorbonne and Università Roma Tre. He retired as a Senior Advisor at the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium in 2021. From May 2015 to June 2018, he was President of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. He holds a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven.

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