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.
Disclosure of interests
Declaration of interests 2024 - 2025
Declaration of interests 2020 - 2021
Featured work
AI, data and Europe’s quest to simplify
How can the EU adapt its rulebook to meet tomorrow's technology environment?
Europe Pays Up for Ukraine
EU securitisation needs a more market-based approach
The EU is updating its regulations on securitisation, but it still has a long way to go if it wants to emulate the strengths of the US market
Europe’s 2025 identity crisis: the year in review
The European Union’s quest for innovation, competitiveness, self defence and economic security
All work
Opinion piece
07 January 2026
Podcast
07 January 2026
AI, data and Europe’s quest to simplify
How can the EU adapt its rulebook to meet tomorrow's technology environment?
Analysis
17 December 2025
EU securitisation needs a more market-based approach
The EU is updating its regulations on securitisation, but it still has a long way to go if it wants to emulate the strengths of the US market
Podcast
15 December 2025
Europe’s 2025 identity crisis: the year in review
The European Union’s quest for innovation, competitiveness, self defence and economic security
Podcast
10 December 2025
EU-India: trading partners with potential
Can Brussels and New Delhi work together to improve economic ties?
Podcast
26 November 2025
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
Event
02 October 2025
Workshop on capital markets and sustainable finance
How can sustainable finance become more market-oriented and create a better investment climate?
Podcast
19 November 2025
How can carbon credits work better?
New ideas on reaching climate targets as COP30 gets underway
Podcast
12 November 2025
Understanding money in the EU
How do citizens keep track of their finances and investments, and how can the European Commission help?
Podcast
05 November 2025
Double tax – why women pay it and what to do about it
Fixing gender inequality could reap big gains for the entire economy