Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Professor of International Macroeconomics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Beatrice Weder di Mauro has held the chair of international macroeconomics at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz since 2001.

She served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2004 to 2012, was on the Swiss Council of Economic Advisors from 2002 to 2004 and was an advisor to the Austrian Vice Chancellor 2009 to 2011.

From 1994 to 1996, Ms. Weder worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. She has also been a regular visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF. She held visiting positions at the World Bank, Harvard University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Board of New York and the United Nations University in Tokyo.

She is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. She is a member of the Brookings Institution’s Committee on International Economic Policy and Reform and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Crisis.

She currently is a member of the supervisory board of Roche, Thyssen-Krupp, UBS and DEG. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Basel, Switzerland.