I am Head of the Research Division at Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden). I was appointed Head of Research in November 2019. Prior to that I was Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Department at the Riksbank, and I have also been Head of the Modelling Division at the Monetary Policy Department. From September 2003 until August 2008, I was first Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a Research Fellow at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER).