Beatrice Weder di Mauro

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Beatrice Weder di Mauro (2012)

Beatrice Weder di Mauro (born August 3, 1965 in Basel ) is a Swiss - Italian economist . She is a member of the Board of Directors of UBS Group AG and is also involved in other management functions at UBS.

From 2004 to February 2012 she was a member of the Expert Council for the Assessment of Macroeconomic Development (“Council of Economic Wise Men ”) in Germany. She has been President of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since mid-2018 .

education

After graduating from the Münchenstein high school in 1984 and studying economics at the University of Basel , she received her licentiate in 1989 . rer. pole. Neither was 1993 di Mauro at this university, where she worked as a research assistant, with a thesis on "Economic between anarchy and the rule of law" at the chair of the Basel economics professor Silvio Borner Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

Using empirical data from Latin America , she demonstrated that poverty in all strata is also a consequence of legal uncertainty and, conversely, an increase in prosperity in developing countries would be made possible if the “basic conditions for the success of Western countries” - “long-term, separation of powers and supranationality ” - also would be created in these countries.

Career

Economist and economics professor

From 1994 to 1996 Weder di Mauro worked in Washington, DC as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and from 1996 to 1997 in the same city at the World Bank . Two years later, from 1998 to 2000, she worked as an assistant professor at the University of Basel , where she received her habilitation in 2000, and then in 2000 and 2001 as adjunct professor of economics . Sporadic guest stays at the IMF, at the United Nations University in Tokyo (2000) and at Harvard University , and from 2003 at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York followed . From April 2001 to 2018, Weder di Mauro held a professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where she focused on questions of international economic relations and international financial markets .

From 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the Federal Commission for Economic Issues in Bern . In 2006 she was a visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research and in 2010 as a researcher at the IMF.

Further career

Since 2003 she has been co-editor of the "Applied Economics Quarterly" and "Research Affiliate" of the "Center for Economic Policy Research" (CEPR) in London .

In June 2004, Weder di Mauro was appointed to succeed Axel A. Weber in the German Council of Experts to assess macroeconomic developments (“five economic methods”). In this position she was the youngest ever appointed member, the first ever appointed woman and the first ever appointed non-German. Neither di Mauro gave up her business practice at the end of her term of office on February 29, 2012, because she was nominated for the board of directors of the Swiss bank UBS . She said she wanted to avoid a conflict of interest.

From 2005 to 2010 she was on the supervisory board of the Ergo Insurance Group , since 2010 she has been on the supervisory board of ThyssenKrupp and since 2011 on the supervisory board of the German investment and development company . From 2006 to 2016 she was a member of the Hoffmann-La Roche Board of Directors . Her mandate on the Thyssen-Krupp Supervisory Board , which would have run until 2015, ended at the end of 2013, as EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso appointed her to a commission of experts.

In addition to articles in specialist journals, Weder di Mauro also writes articles in popular science. She also wrote columns for the Basler Zeitung (on topics such as the economy, the stock market, international financial flows and development aid).

Other activities and vested interests

Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a member of the board of directors of Robert Bosch GmbH and Bombardier Inc. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the ETH Zurich Foundation. Since 2016 she has been teaching as a visiting professor at INSEAD in Singapore. In addition, Weder di Mauro has been Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute Geneva since January 2019.

In 2016 she was invited to the Bilderberg Conference for the first time .

Life

Neither di Mauro spent her childhood and youth in Guatemala , where she attended the German School from 1971 to 1980 . Her father, who worked as a crop protection expert for the Basel chemical company Ciba-Geigy , moved the family to the company's Central American headquarters. When Weder di Mauro was 16 years old, the family returned to Switzerland.

Beatrice Weder di Mauro is married to Filippo di Mauro, who studied and taught economics in Rome , Chicago and Boston . He then worked for the Italian National Bank in Rome and Tokyo , as well as for the IMF . He later worked as a department head at the European Central Bank under the direction of Jean-Claude Trichet . The family has one son.

Neither di Mauro speaks German , English , Italian and Spanish and can also communicate in French and, with restrictions, in Japanese and Russian .

Publications

  • Five essays on economic causes of corruption. WWZ Forum, Basel 2002.
  • Institutional reform in transition economics. International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, 2001.
  • Model, myth or miracle. United Nations University Press, Tokyo 1999, ISBN 92-808-1030-8 .
  • Economy between anarchy and the rule of law. Rüegger, Chur 1993, ISBN 3-7253-0469-6 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Beatrice Weder di Mauro , UBS website. Retrieved January 23, 2018
  2. ↑ CEPR welcomes new President (accessed January 5, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b Beatrice Weder di Mauro , Munziger. Know that matters. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g power network by Beatrice Weder di Mauro: On Olympus . bilanz.ch. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Prof. Dr Beatrice Weder di Mauro , Roche. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Chair of International Macroeconomics , website of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, accessed on September 27, 2017
  7. ^ Professor Beatrice Weder di Mauro , Center for Economic Policy Research, accessed on January 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ Neither di Mauro ends her work as an “economic method” , Tagesanzeiger, February 3, 2012.
  9. ↑ Beatrice Weder di Mauro: Wirtschaftweise switches to a major Swiss bank , Spiegel Online, accessed on March 13, 2015.
  10. ↑ Weder di Mauro - An exceptional phenomenon goes , Die Welt, accessed March 13, 2015
  11. ↑ Changes in the ERGO Supervisory Board , press release April 13, 2005, accessed on January 23, 2018
  12. ↑ Weimer is supposed to control ERGO , Die Welt March 30, 2010, accessed on January 23, 2018
  13. ^ Changes in the Roche Board of Directors , Roche, accessed March 17, 2016
  14. ↑ Weder di Mauro goes , Wirtschaftswoche issue 42, accessed on October 16, 2013.
  15. ↑ Supervisory Board ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bosch Group, accessed on August 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bosch.com
  16. ↑ Board of Directors , Bombardier Inc., accessed December 4, 2016.
  17. ↑ Board of Trustees , ETH Foundation Stiftung, accessed on July 3, 2019.
  18. ↑ Beatrice Weder di Mauro , INSEAD, accessed on July 3, 2019.
  19. ↑ Portrait of Beatrice Weder di Mauro, New Professor of International Economics , Management and Foundation Board, accessed on July 3, 2019.
  20. ↑ Bilderberg Meetings Participants 2016 , list of participants of the Bilderberg Conference 2016, accessed on August 23, 2017.
  21. ↑ Beatrice Weder di Mauro. The experts , FAZ. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Neither di Mauro, Beatrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Italian economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel