Rebecca Christie
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 2024 - 2025
Declaration of interests 2020 - 2021
Featured work
The Pandemic Recovery Revolution
How the EU’s RRF plan changed the public investment paradigm
BRICs at 25
How do Brazil, Russia, India and China influence today’s global economy?
Public goods, public questions
Green finance or financing green? Bridging the EU’s sustainable-finance and capital-market architectures
What’s threatening financial stability?
Dutch Central Bank chief Olaf Sleijpen and Jeromin Zettelmeyer on risks, rates and responses
State of the Union live
What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case?
What the US-Canada trade war means for Europe
As the EU’s top trading partners fight, what are the lessons for the single market?
Iceland, Switzerland, Europe
What should the European Union offer to nearby countries that do not want to become member states?
Europe’s new anti-money laundering agency
How will AMLA help the EU crack down on financial crime?
The billionaire paradox
The EU should ask what it wants from globally influential tech magnates, not just how to curb them
Billionaires? In this economy?
How has great wealth transformed society and economic policy in the US and Europe?
Are jobs disposable now?
How do AI, technology and contracting change the way companies and workers relate?
Building the best safe asset
Why would the euro area need common debt and will new proposals help?
The UK, the EU – and Ukraine?
A decade after Brexit, the UK has to compete with other prospects for EU attention
Double materiality doubles the work
Who Is the Swing Vote?
Why is sustainable finance so disconnected from capital markets?
Green finance or financing green? Bridging the EU’s sustainable-finance and capital-market architectures
Sustainable finance rules risk becoming costly compliance unless the EU aligns disclosure with market policy and global standards
AI, demographics and China
How young economists see the big challenges of our times
The UK is still not ready for real rapprochement with the European Union
The EU-UK relationship remains difficult and the idea of UK participation in the EU single market for goods shows the UK still wants to cherry pick
All work
Podcast
14 October 2026
The Pandemic Recovery Revolution
How the EU’s RRF plan changed the public investment paradigm
Podcast
07 October 2026
BRICs at 25
How do Brazil, Russia, India and China influence today’s global economy?
External publication
28 September 2026
Opinion piece
28 September 2026
Podcast
24 September 2026
What’s threatening financial stability?
Dutch Central Bank chief Olaf Sleijpen and Jeromin Zettelmeyer on risks, rates and responses
Event
13 October 2026
Priorities and trade-offs for the next round of EU banking reform
What should be the aims of EU banking reform?
Podcast
17 September 2026
State of the Union live
What are Europe’s priorities and how did Ursula Von der Leyen make the EU case?
Podcast
09 September 2026
What the US-Canada trade war means for Europe
As the EU’s top trading partners fight, what are the lessons for the single market?
Podcast
31 August 2026
Iceland, Switzerland, Europe
What should the European Union offer to nearby countries that do not want to become member states?
Event
17 September 2026
The Sound of Economics Live: The State of the European Union 2026
A special live episode of The Sound of Economics podcast on the State of the Union speech