Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been Director of Bruegel since September 2022.

A macroeconomist and international economist by training, most of his past work has focused on sovereign debt, international financial crises and economic growth. More recently, he has written on the European governance issues, including fiscal governance and rearmament, the return of economic nationalism in advanced and emerging market countries, EU economic security and the nexus between climate, trade and industrial policy.

He speaks English, Spanish and German.

He is a Research Fellow and member of the Policy and Research Networks on European Economic Architecture and International Lending and Sovereign Debt at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Economic Advisory Group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the IMF, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Research for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT.

Disclosure of interests

Declaration of interests 2022