Philipp Hartmann is Head of the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank (ECB). He is also the Vice President of SUERF (the European Money and Finance Forum), a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Research Task Force. His previous positions include that of Research Fellow for Financial Regulation at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Hartmann’s work is on a wide range of issues in financial and international monetary economics. He has authored or co-edited several books in these fields, published numerous articles in academic journals, and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. His policy work has been published in many official reports and discussed in fora including the ECOFIN Council, the ECB Governing and General Councils, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

In 2002 Mr. Hartmann was awarded the first CEPR/European Summer Institute Prize for the best central bank research paper. He holds a Doctorat en Sciences Économiques from l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.