Jesper Berg
Jesper Berg is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in the financial system and monetary policy.
His research covers financial markets, banking and regulation. He advises companies on business development, management and political advocacy.
He speaks English and Danish.
Jesper is also a Senior Advisor with Rud Petersen, a public affairs consultancy, a Senior Fellow at the CIP foundation, Associate Professor at both the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Business School and a consultant for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He chairs a commission analysing the investment strategy of the Danish state pension fund and chairs the board of two financial institutions. Previously, he headed the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority and sat on the board of organisations including the European Banking Authority, the European Systemic Risk Board and Nykredit Bank. He served in high-level roles at the Danish Central Bank, the European Central Bank and the IMF’s Exchange and Trade Relations Department. Jesper holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from the IMD Business School in Switzerland.
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Europe needs long-term, patient capital to meet its investment needs. Where is the money going and how can policymakers help?
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The EU and UK should address issues with the clearing and settlement industry and letterbox firms
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Where do insurance firms and pension funds invest?
Europe needs long-term, patient capital to meet its investment needs. Where is the money going and how can policymakers help?
Opinion piece
28 May 2025
First Glance
08 May 2025
The European Union should not water down bank capital standards
The EU should resist the pressure for banking-sector deregulation that is likely to follow from the deregulatory push in the United States
Analysis
29 April 2025
Make finance part of the EU-UK post-Brexit reset
The EU and UK should address issues with the clearing and settlement industry and letterbox firms
Working paper
15 April 2025
The quickly fading memory of why and when bank capital is important
Deregulation should not be equated with lowering capital requirements in the EU