Welcome

SUMMARY

Current: Freelance journalist, web author.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Revista del Ciclo Económico" (J of Business Cycles), launched 2019.

Former consultant with Systemic Policy Partnership (SPP), a group of experts that offers advice to governments, central banks and other financial authorities.

Previous: 1984-August 2014: Bank for International Settlements (BIS), an international organisation with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

Special Adviser, Monetary and Economic Department, 2012-2014;
Chief Representative for the Americas, BIS Americas Office (based in Mexico City), from 2002 to October 2012. In that capacity also Secretary for the Consultative Council for the Americas which consists of the Governors of the 8 leading central banks in the region.
Head of Secertariat, Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS);
Senior staff member and head of legal research and international cooperation, BIS Legal Service.

Languages: German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and some Italian

Attended schools in Portugal, Turkey, Brazil and Germany

University studies (law and romance languages) in Bonn, Lausanne and Hamburg / Graduated from University of Hamburg in 1978 (B.LL. equivalent) / "Second State Exam" (Grosse Juristische Staatsprüfung; J.D. equivalent) and admission to the Bar (Hamburg) in 1981

Work as research assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international private law (Hamburg) until 1984.