Lucrezia Reichlin
Full Professor of Economics
London Business School , UK
Lucrezia Reichlin is professor of economics at the London Business School, a trustee of the Center of European Policy Research (CEPR) and of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation.
She chaired the steering committee that led to the establishment of the International Sustainability Standard Board (ISSB) within the IFRS. Reichlin is an applied macroeconomist and econometrician. She has pioneered methods for forecasting with large data-sets and for now-casting. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society and she is honorary international fellow of the American Economic Association.
Reichlin was director general of research at the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2008 and she co-founded Now-casting economics in 2011. She is a member of a few commercial boards and research institutes and advises central banks and governments on issues related to macroeconomy policy and the financial sector.
Reichlin carries out various non-profit activities and co-founded the Ortigia Foundation, of which she is President, which carries out educational support activities in Southern Italy.
Reichlin is a columnist for Corriere della Sera and Project Syndacate.