Jeromin ZETTELMEYER

Bio

Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic policy think tank, since September 2022. He was previously a Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016-19), Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-16); Director of Research and Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2008-2014), and IMF staff member(1994-2008). Jeromin’s recent work has focused on geopolitical change and reform in the EU, the EU fiscal framework, public debt sustainability, economic security, and international climate finance. Aside from leading Bruegel, Jeromin is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a member of the Euro50. He holds an economics degree from the University of Bonn (1990) and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1995).