Pablo Hernández de Cos
Pablo Hernández de Cos joined Bruegel as a Senior Fellow in September 2024 until June 2025. He is currently Chair of the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (since 2019).
Hernández de Cos was Governor of the Banco de España and member of the Governing and General Council of the ECB from June 2018 up to June 2024.
He was also Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) between 2019 and 2024 and a member of the General Board and the Steering Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and of the Financial Stability Committee (FSB). In addition, he has chaired the Governing Board of the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA).
Previously, he was Director of Economics and Statistics and head of the Economic Policy Analysis Division at the Bank of Spain, and advisor to the ECB's executive board. He was a member of the Committee for the Reform of the Spanish Tax System in 2013.
He chaired the Eurosystem's Public Finance Working Group and was a member of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) and the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) of the European Union.
He holds a PhD in Economics (Complutense University, Madrid), a degree in Economics and Business Studies (CUNEF) and a degree in Law (UNED). He has taught at University Carlos III of Madrid and Instituto de Empresa, and he’s currently a professor of economics at IESE Business school.
His research interests are on financial stability, monetary and fiscal policy
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Featured work
Digital euro: why now and what's next
ECB’s Cipollone and Spain’s Hernández de Cos talk timing and strategic arguments for a new Central Bank Digital Currency
Lessons for the European Central Bank from the 2021-2023 inflationary episode
This paper reflects on these developments ahead of the ECB’s 2025 monetary policy review
The new economic governance framework: implications for monetary policy
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Podcast
18 June 2025
Digital euro: why now and what's next
ECB’s Cipollone and Spain’s Hernández de Cos talk timing and strategic arguments for a new Central Bank Digital Currency
Working paper
12 May 2025
Lessons for the European Central Bank from the 2021-2023 inflationary episode
This paper reflects on these developments ahead of the ECB’s 2025 monetary policy review
Report
21 November 2024
Conference
04 September 2024
Bruegel Annual Meetings | 4-5 September 2024
This year's Annual Meetings centered around the launch of the Bruegel Memos to the European Union leadership 2024-2029
Event
17 February 2022
A debate on fiscal rules and the new monetary strategy
Presentation of the Yearbook of the Euro 2022.