Nicolas Véron
Nicolas Véron is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in financial systems and financial reform.
His research includes global financial regulatory initiatives, financial sector policy in the European Union and selected developments in other jurisdictions. He has authored or co-authored numerous policy papers on themes such as financial stability, banking and capital market supervision, crisis management, financial reporting, financial sanctions, anti-money laundering and economic nationalism.
He speaks English, French and Spanish.
Nicolas is also a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a board member of the global repository and derivatives arm of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a not-for-profit basis. Before his involvement in the creation of Bruegel in 2002-2005, he had early professional experience in the French government and private sector. In 2012, Bloomberg Markets included him in its annual 50 Global Most Influential list with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.
Disclosure of interests
Declarations of interests 2020
Featured work
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
The European Savings and Investment Union: What Will Poland Get Out of It?
How can Europe take greater advantage of Russia’s immobilised reserve assets?
An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine
European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine
All work
Podcast
26 November 2025
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
External publication
25 November 2025
Event
26 November 2025
The changing global and European environment for sustainability-related financial disclosures
At this invitation-only event Sue Lloyd discussed sustainability-related financial disclosures in an evironmental context
Newsletter
27 October 2025
First Glance
14 October 2025
An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine
European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine
Event
05 November 2025
Supranational supervision: unlocking European capital markets
What is the future of European capital markets supervision?
Policy Brief
02 September 2025
Is Europe ready for a major banking crisis?
This Policy Brief is a reissue of a Policy Brief published by Bruegel in August 2007
Podcast
02 July 2025
The EU’s capital markets quest
Enrico Letta and Nicolas Véron discuss prospects for common EU financial supervision
Newsletter
30 June 2025