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
Where is the growth?
What do the EU’s spring forecasts say about higher prices, a changing job market and rising uncertainty?
Testimony to the Belgian Senate's Finance and Mobility Committee on a proposal for a Benelux working group on investment and taxation
Money, stablecoins and the dollar
The past, present and future of money
The European project
Valdis Dombrovskis, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Anne Bucher talk Ukraine, political will and Europe’s quest for better regulation
Weapons, war and confusion
How will Europe and the US build and pay for the arsenals of the future?
Future-proofing and creative destruction
How EU sustainable finance can find a way forward
Taking the Pulse: Is the EU Ready for Rapprochement With the UK?
Hungary’s future
How Hungary’s historic election changes the EU and the economic outlook
Why are global imbalances rising, and why does it matter?
Is the dollar at risk? Is China the new Germany? How to manage rising external deficits and surpluses
Europe’s electric vehicle conundrum
What to do about Chinese overcapacity, EU subsidies and the electric transition
The Digital Euro and Monetary Credibility
Montenegro’s power connection to the EU
How do Montenegro and the Western Balkans manage electricity, CBAM and the green transition?
Stuck in the Middle Again
Europe is up against too many crises and with too little time to prepare
What the heck is a 28th Regime?
The European Commission’s new plan for business law, in context
Italy and Europe
Slow growth, high debt and the paradox of Giorgia Meloni
Inflation, Iran and the Industrial Accelerator Act
Klaas Knot and Jeromin Zettelmeyer tackle the key issues facing Europe
28th regimes to help Europe’s capital markets
The European Union should take a building-block approach to pan-EU business laws
Europe and the Iran war
What does the conflict mean for inflation, oil prices, the economy and Ukraine?
Where can Europe be independent?
Vestager and Brasso Sørensen discuss competitiveness, tech and the EU
The real justification for the digital euro? Monetary sovereignty
The best argument for the digital euro is to discourage ghosts of the euro crisis from returning to haunt Europe
All work
Podcast
03 June 2026
Where is the growth?
What do the EU’s spring forecasts say about higher prices, a changing job market and rising uncertainty?
News
22 May 2026
Podcast
20 May 2026
Money, stablecoins and the dollar
The past, present and future of money
Event
04 June 2026
Mobilising capital for Europe’s green transition: Where do we stand?
How to finance Europe's green transition and strengthen global competitiveness?
Podcast
13 May 2026
The European project
Valdis Dombrovskis, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Anne Bucher talk Ukraine, political will and Europe’s quest for better regulation
Podcast
06 May 2026
Weapons, war and confusion
How will Europe and the US build and pay for the arsenals of the future?
Podcast
29 April 2026
Future-proofing and creative destruction
How EU sustainable finance can find a way forward
Opinion piece
23 April 2026
Podcast
14 April 2026
Hungary’s future
How Hungary’s historic election changes the EU and the economic outlook
Podcast
13 April 2026
Why are global imbalances rising, and why does it matter?
Is the dollar at risk? Is China the new Germany? How to manage rising external deficits and surpluses