Frank Smets

Frank Smets is Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements. Previously he was Adviser to the Executive Board, Director General Economics, Adviser to the President and Director General Research at the European Central Bank. He is a part-time professor of economics at University of Ghent. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and CESifo in Munich. He has written and published extensively on monetary, macroeconomic, financial and international issues mostly related to central banking in top academic journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He was managing editor of the International Journal of Central Banking from 2008 till 2010. Before joining the European Central Bank in 1998, he was a research economist at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University.