Peter Praet

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Peter Praet (2016)

Peter Praet [ praːt ] (born January 20, 1949 in Herchen , today Windeck , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a Belgian economist . From 2011 to 2019 he was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) and in this role from 2012 Chief Economist of the ECB.

The son of a Belgian military doctor and a German studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles where he received his BA in 1971, his MA in 1972 and his PhD in 1980 . His dissertation was entitled Les gains en capital envisagés comme un élargissement du revenu . He taught at the Université Libre from 1980 to 1987. Later he was chief economist at Fortis Bank and from 2000 to 2011 a member of the board of directors of the Belgian National Bank .

On January 3, 2012, it was announced that Praet will be the new Chief Economist of the ECB under its President Mario Draghi . Previously, the board members Jörg Asmussen and Benoît Cœuré had been favored for the post. Praet is the first non-German to be appointed chief economist of the ECB. His predecessors as chief economists were Otmar Issing (1998 to 2006) and Jürgen Stark (2006 to 2011). After eight years of membership in the board of directors, Praet resigned from the committee in June 2019. His successor as chief economist was Philip R. Lane .

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  1. ↑ Member of the Board of Directors of the European Central Bank. Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
  2. ^ MEPs' give backing to appointment of Peter Praet to ECB Board. Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Free-wheeling economist. Retrieved June 9, 2011 .
  4. ^ Member of the ECB's Executive Board. Retrieved January 3, 2012 . (with photo)
  5. ↑ Entry in the catalog of the university library of the Université Libre  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 3, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / bib7.ulb.ac.be  
  6. ↑ Man of low tones with a lot of influence. , handelsblatt.de of January 3, 2012 , accessed on January 3, 2012
  7. ↑ Organization chart of the National Bank ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2012 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. , accessed January 3, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bnb.be
  8. ↑ Belgian Peter Praet becomes the new chief economist of the ECB. Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Le Belge Peter Praet désigné économiste en chef de la BCE , lemonde.fr , January 3, 2012, accessed on January 4, 2012
  10. ^ Convincing the Markets , imf.org, September 2019, accessed on March 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Praet, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Herchen