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Rebecca Christie

Bruegel Senior Fellow

Rebecca Christie is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and hosts Bruegel's podcast, The Sound of Economics. She specialises in capital markets and financial stability.

She covers the intersection of policy, politics and markets, particularly when it comes to the European Union and how it interacts with the world, sustainable finance, banking, taxation and public debt management.

She is available for interviews in English.

She writes the Brussels Briefing column for International Politik Quarterly. In 2024 she was a senior economist at the European Central Bank working on retail savings and capital markets union, and was lead author on the European Stability Mechanism’s official history book, "Safeguarding the Euro in Times of Crisis: the Inside Story of the ESM". She has been an expert adviser to a European Economic and Social Committee panel on taxation and provided policy analysis and editing to the European Commission and the African Development Bank. In her prior career as a journalist, she wrote for Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, Reuters Breakingviews and the Financial Times.

Her detailed CV and publications are available at https://www.rebeccawire.net/

Disclosure of interests

Declaration of interests 2026

Declaration of interests 2024 - 2025

Declaration of interests 2023

Declaration of interests 2020 - 2021

Declaration of interests 2019

 

Featured work

A view over Nowa Huta seen from Krakus Mound, during a smog alert on November 5, as the air pollution in many parts of the city of Krakow still continues to be very high above the allowed EU norms, with the air quality index (AQI) over 150
Podcast

What you need to know about ETS

How does the EU’s emissions trading system work and what changes are coming?

Rebecca Christie, Flora Marchioro and Simone Tagliapietra
WARSAW, POLAND - MAY 06: A visitor holds a grenade launcher at Polish PGZ, Poland's largest and one of Europe's major arms manufacturers during the Defense 24 days conference on May 06, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. European defense ministers, military experts, and security industry leaders are among the participants of the 7th edition of Defense24 Days, the largest conference in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated to defense and security, according to organizers. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Podcast

Weapons, war and confusion

How will Europe and the US build and pay for the arsenals of the future?

Rebecca Christie, Sharon Weinberger and Guntram B. Wolff
defence

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