Swiss National Bank, since 2003

i) Assistant Director, Head of 'Supply and Prices', Economic Analysis, since 2009
ii) Mitglied des Anlageauschusses der BVG-Kommission (Eidgenössische Kommission für die berufliche Vorsorge), since 2005
iii) Mitglied der Delegiertenversammlung und Ersatzmitglied des Vorstands der Pensionskasse der Nationalbank, since 2005
iv) Economic Advisor, Research, 2003-2009

University of St. Gallen, since 2001

i) Lecturer, Assessment, Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre
ii) Lecturer, Master, Economics of Central Banking (Zentralbanktheorie und -politik)

Business High School Neuchâtel, since 1994

i) Exams expert

I have been working for the Swiss National Bank, the central bank of Switzerland, since 2003. I am currently Head of 'Supply and Prices' - a team of five Ph.D. economists - in the division Economic Analysis. Between 2003 and 2009, I used to be an Economic Advisor in Research at the Swiss National Bank.

After spending a very stimulating post-doctoral year (2000-2001) at the University of California, Berkeley as a research fellow, I worked for the Swiss think tank Avenir Suisse (2001-2002) and for UBS in the Group Research, Public Policy (2002-2003). I wrote my Ph.D. at the University of Lausanne, DEEP about the identification of monetary shocks for Switzerland, the estimation of reaction functions of the Swiss National Bank, and the interpolation of monthly GDP. During my Ph.D. I worked for the Studienzentrum Gerzensee (SZG) as a teaching and research assistant, mainly for the Central Bankers Courses (1994-2000). I graduated with a degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and a master from the SZG.

In my studies, I put the main emphasis on the macro fields of monetary economics, international economics, financial macroeconomics, and foreign policy. Previous to writing my dissertation, I used to work for different banks, Credit Suisse, and Zürcher Kantonalbank, and for the Swiss Government in the Federal Office for Industry, Trade and Labour (former BIGA, now SECO).