
Niels Thygesen
Chairman, European Fiscal Board,
Mr Thygesen was Chair of the European Fiscal Board from 2016 to 2024. Professor Emeritus of International Economics at the University of Copenhagen, he also worked for the Danish government, Harvard’s Development Advisory Service (in Malaysia), and the OECD in Paris. Former adviser to the Governor of Denmark's national bank, Chair of the Danish Economic Council and member of various expert groups on European monetary and financial integration - the subject area of most of his research and publications.
Mr Thygesen was an independent member of the Delors Committee which prepared the outline of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe in 1988-9, a member of the committee advising the government of Sweden on an exit from the crisis of the early 1990s, a member of the Group of Independent Experts evaluating IMF surveillance following the Asian crisis, and he chaired the Economic and Development Review Committee of the OECD which evaluates the economic performance and policies of member states 2000-8. He is a Founder Member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. He studied at the Universities of Copenhagen, where he obtained a PhD, and Harvard.
Featured work

European public goods: the time for action is now
New priorities, including defence and energy security, justify a European public goods approach – for which spare financial capacity can be used
Reviewing the EU fiscal framework
What are the positive and negative developments and is there scope for improvement?
Assessing the EU’s fiscal architecture: a presentation by the European Fiscal Board
This event will discuss the 2019 Fiscal Stance, which assesses the current macroeconomic situation and offers advice for the future.

An independent assessment of the EU’s fiscal framework: a presentation by the European Fiscal Board
This event will feature a presentation of the European Fiscal Board.