Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin at the Festival of Economics in Trento in 2013

Lucrezia Reichlin, FBA (born 14 August 1954 in Rome) is an Italian economist.

Biography

Lucrezia Reichlin was born in 1954, she is the daughter of Alfredo Reichlin, former deputy of the Italian Communist Party and its heir the Democratic Party of the Left, and of Luciana Castellina, founder of Il manifesto and also deputy; her brother Pietro Reichlin is a well-known economist.

After completing high school at the Liceo Tasso in Rome, she graduated in economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1980, and then got a Ph.D. at New York University in 1986.

Since 1994 she is professor of economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

From 2005 to 2008, she was Director General of Research at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, during Jean-Claude Trichet's presidency, one of 12 Directors General of the ECB.

Since 2008 she has been professor of economics at London Business School.[1]

She serves on the Board of Directors of UniCredit[2] and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the group and the Italian Messaggerie spa.

Since 2014, she has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate[3].

Honours

In 2013, Reichlin was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[4] In 2016, she received the Birgit Grodal Award.[5]

References

  1. Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School. URL viewed on 14-2-2014
  2. Lucrezia Reichlin, UniCredit. URL viewed on 14-2-2014
  3. "Lucrezia Reichlin - Project Syndicate". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  4. "Professor Lucrezia Reichlin". britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  5. "The 2016 Birgit Grodal Award Winner". 21 April 2016.
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