Karolina Ekholm

Director General, Swedish National Debt Office

Karolina Ekholm is Director General of the Swedish National Debt Office since 1 February 2022. She has extensive experience within macroeconomics and financial stability. Up until starting as Director General of the Swedish National Debt Office, she has been a professor at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. She has previously served as Deputy Governor of the Riksbank and State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance with responsibility for economic analysis and international cooperation on economic policy.

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06 September 2022

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 6-7 September 2022

The Annual Meetings are Bruegel's flagship event which gathers high-level speakers to discuss the economic topics that affect Europe and the world.

Piotr Arak, Vincent Aussilloux, Muhamad Chatib Basri, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Brando Benifei, Damian Boeselager, Laurence Boone, Nadia Calviño, William Carter, Rebecca Christie, Grégory Claeys, Uri Dadush, Zsolt Darvas, Guy Debelle, Jo De Boeck, Sławomir Dębski, Jos Delbeke, Margarita Delgado, Maria Demertzis, Karolina Ekholm, Jens Eisenschmidt, Marion Finke, Alicia García-Herrero, Paolo Gentiloni, Kristalina Georgieva, Nicola Giammarioli, Anabel González, Arancha González Laya, Ricardo Hausmann, Douglas Irwin, Joana Jacinto, Patrick Jenkins, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, Sigrid Kaag, Katya Klinova, Annamaria Lusardi, Joanna Maćkowiak-Pandera, Eva Maydell, Mairead McGuinness, Jan Mischke, Carlo Monticelli, Frederic Neumann, Françoise Nicolas, Laura Nurski, Ebru Özdemir, Tuomas Saarenheimo, André Sapir, Andrea Sironi, Marek Skawiński, Francesco Starace, Philipp Steinberg, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Alexander Stubb, Arvind Subramanian, Simone Tagliapietra, Amaryllis Verhoeven, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Nicola Villa, Claire Waysand, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Sabine Weyand, Guntram B. Wolff, Catherine Woollard, Georg Zachmann and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Annual meetings

01 September 2020

Bruegel Annual Meetings 1-3 September, 2020

Bruegel's flagship event transformed into a virtual conference for pandemic times

Piotr Arak, Santina Bertulessi, Tito Boeri, Francesca Bria, Marco Buti, Elena Carletti, Grégory Claeys, Benoît Coeuré, Uri Dadush, Maria Demertzis, Alexandra Dimitrijevic, Koen Doens, Esther Duflo, Karolina Ekholm, Alberto di Felice, Barbara Frei, Steven Fries, Alicia García-Herrero, Anna Gelpern, Hafez Ghanem, Gerard de Graaf, Olivier Guersent, Robert Holzmann, Beata Javorcik, Philippe Lamberts, Erkki Liikanen, Susan Lund, Trudi Makhaya, J. Scott Marcus, Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Martin Merlin, Atif Mian, Reza Moghadam, Dominique Moïsi, Patricia Obo-Nai, Georgios Petropoulos, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Giuseppe Porcaro, Jennifer Rankin, Dani Rodrik, Martin Sandbu, André Sapir, Olaf Scholz, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Shamina Singh, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Samantha Smith, Philipp Steinberg, Rolf Strauch, Alexander Stubb, Simone Tagliapietra, Frans Timmermans, Nathalie Tocci, Jean-Claude Trichet, Sophie Vermeille, Guntram B. Wolff, Janet Yellen, Georg Zachmann, Xiaochuan Zhou, Jessica Woodworth, Pierre Wunsch, Nicolas Véron and Reinhilde Veugelers

Annual meetings

01 September 2021

Bruegel Annual Meetings, 1-3 September 2021

The 2021 Annual Meetings gathered high-level speakers and participants to discuss how to recover from the crises brought on by the Covid pandemic

Masood Ahmed, Carlo Altomonte, José Antonio Álvarez, Nicholas Bloom, Francesca Bria, Per Callesen, Nadia Calviño, Grégory Claeys, Declan Costello, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis, Alberto De Paoli, Valdis Dombrovskis, Karolina Ekholm, Jeremy Farrar, Henry Foy, Michael Froman, Alicia García-Herrero, Amanda Glassman, Gita Gopinath, Caroline de Gruyter, Pierre Heilbronn, Amadou Hott, Kerstin Jorna, Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Keyu Jin, Tadeusz Kościński, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Mario Mariniello, Sara Matthieu, J. Scott Marcus, Mairead McGuinness, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Niclas Poitiers, Hélène Rey, Aura Salla, Diederik Samsom, André Sapir, Marietje Schaake, Jorge Sicilia Serrano, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Vera Songwe, Lawrence H. Summers, György Szapáry, Simone Tagliapietra, Adam Tooze, Laurence Tubiana, Jutta Urpilainen, Nicolas Véron, Reinhilde Veugelers, Luca Visentini, Guntram B. Wolff, Sabine Weyand and Georg Zachmann

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02 September 2020

Bruegel Annual Meetings 2020 - Day 2

Second day of Bruegel Annual Meetings.

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Georg Zachmann, Guntram B. Wolff, Grégory Claeys, Giuseppe Porcaro, Alicia García-Herrero, Simone Tagliapietra, Tito Boeri, J. Scott Marcus, Karolina Ekholm, Georgios Petropoulos, Maria Demertzis, Marco Buti, Reza Moghadam, Isabelle Mateos y Lago, Rolf Strauch, Nathalie Tocci, Dominique Moïsi, Alexander Stubb, Susan Lund, Anna Gelpern, Sophie Vermeille, Beata Javorcik, Piotr Arak, Robert Holzmann, Francesca Bria, Barbara Frei, Steven Fries, Atif Mian, Jennifer Rankin, Shamina Singh, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Samantha Smith, Jessica Woodworth, Gerard de Graaf and Alberto di Felice