Guntram Wolff, Bruegel on Brexit, Refugee Crisis and think tanks

April 15, 2016

Guntram B. Wolff Director, Bruegel on Brexit, Refugee Crisis and the Role of Think Tanks was interviewed in the context of the international conference: “Seven Years after the Crisis: Intersecting Perspectives” April 01, 2016, OCP Policy Center, Rabat

Speakers
Guntram Wolff
Director, Bruegel , Belgium
Guntram Wolff is Director of Bruegel. His research focuses on the European economy and governance, on fiscal and monetary policy and global finance. He regularly testifies to the European Finance Ministers' ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament (Bundestag) and the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale). From 2012-16, he was a member of the French primeminister's Conseil d'Analyse Economique.  Guntram Wolff is also a member of the Solvay Brussels School's international advisory board of the Brussels Free University. He joined Bruegel from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of the euro area and the reform of euro area governance. Prior to joining the Commission, he was coordinating the research team on fiscal policy at Deuts ...

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