Philip R. Lane

Philip R. Lane joined the ECB as a Member of the Executive Board in 2019. He is responsible for the Directorate General Economics and the Directorate General Monetary Policy. Before joining the ECB, he was the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. He has also chaired the Advisory Scientific Committee and Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board and was Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin. He is also a research fellow at the CEPR. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he was awarded a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1995 and was Assistant Professor at Columbia from 1995 to 1997, before returning to Dublin. In 2001 he was the inaugural recipient of the Bernacer Prize for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics.

Charles Goodhart

Charles Goodhart is Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics (LSE) after a long career as Norman Sosnow Professor of Bank and Finance at this Institution. He is Fellow of the British Academy and Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to the monetary economy. Before joining LSE, he worked as a monetary economist at the Bank of England. Following his advice to Hong Kong on how to overcome the financial crisis, he joined the advisory committee of the Hong Kong Sovereign Wealth Fund (HK Exchange Fund) until 1997, when he was appointed as one of the four external members of the then newly formed monetary policy committee of the Bank of England. He has written numerous articles on monetary policy and macroeconomics. He was Member of Bernacer Prize Selection Committe in the first and 20th editions.

Otmar Issing

Otmar Issing is President of the Center for Financial Studies and Chairman Kuratorium House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. He held chairs of economics at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Wuerzburg. He was a member of the Council of Economic Experts and the Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, with a seat at the Central Bank Council. From 1998-2006 he was a founding member of the Executive Board of the ECB, responsible for the Directorates General Economics and Research. He has Honorary Doctorates from the Universities Bayreuth, Frankfurt, and Konstanz. He was Head of the Advisory Group on the New Financial Order appointed by Chancellor Merkel and member of the High-Level Group of the European Commission chaired by J.De Larosiere. In 2017 he was appointed member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance. He is Honorary Professor of the Universities of Frankfurt and Wuerzburg and was (inter alia) International Advisor to Goldman Sachs (2006-2018). He has published many articles in academic journals and is the author of two textbooks. He was Chair of the Bernarcer Prize Selection Committe in the first edition of the Bernacer Prize.

Benjamin Moll

Benjamin Moll is Professor of Economics at the LSE after holding different professorships at Princeton University. He earned a BSc in economics from University College London in 2005, followed by a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Afterwards he joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and, finally, Full Professor. In 2019, he moved to the LSE. His research concentrates in three main topics: cross-country income differences, heterogeneity in macroeconomics and mean-field game theory. He won the 17th edition of the Bernacer Prize.

José Manuel Campa

José Manuel Campa is Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA). After studying law and economics at the University of Oviedo and earning his PhD in economics from Harvard University, Mr. Campa taught finance at New York University and the IESE Business School and consulted for several international organizations including the World Bank, the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements and the European Commission. He then served as the 10th Secretary of State for Economy of the Spanish government and was most recently Director of Regulatory affairs of the Santander Bank. He was the winner of the 2002 edition of the Bernacer Prize.

Vítor Constâncio

Vítor Constâncio was Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2010 to 2018. In the Portuguese Government, he was Secretary of State for the Budget and Planning and Finance Minister. At the Central Bank of Portugal, he was Director of the Economics Department, Deputy Governor and then, from 2000 to 2010, Governor and, consequently, member of the ECB Governing Council. He was Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon, and later coordinator of the Master´s degree on Monetary Policy. He is now President of the School Board at ISEG and Professor at the Master's Degree in Banking and Financial Regulation at the School of Economics, University of Navarra and member of the University Advisory Board. He was the Chair of the Bernacer Prize Selection Committe from the 11th to the 16th edition.

Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at London Business School, Chair of the European Corporate Governance Institute, Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation and Trustee of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Chairman and co-founder of Now-Casting Economics Ltd. She published numerous papers on econometrics and macroeconomics. She is an expert on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy and pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world. She was member of the Selection Committe in the 19th and 20th editions to the Bernacer Prize.

Jean-Pierre Olivier Gourinchas

Jean-Pierre Olivier Gourinchas, is the Economic Counsellor and the Director of Research of the IMF. He taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining UC Berkeley department of economics in 2003. Professor Gourinchas' main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. His recent research focuses on the scarcity of global safe assets, global imbalances and currency wars, on the International Monetary System and the role of the U.S. dollar; on the global financial crisis and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures. He attended Ecole Polytechnique and received his PhD in Economics in 1996 from MIT. Professor Gourinchas is the laureate of the 7th edition of the Bernacer Prize.

Martin Sandbu

Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European Economics Commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as Economics Leader Writer. Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He has taught and carried out research at Harvard, Columbia and the Wharton School, and has advised governments and NGOs on natural resources and economic development. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on "the economics of belonging". He was educated at the universities of Oxford and Harvard.

María Tadeo

Maria Tadeo is a Brussels-based reporter for Bloomberg Television where she regularly reports on the continent’s politics and economy. She covered the Catalan independence crisis in-depth in 2017, the European elections and the Brexit negotiations from Brussels. She has also covered international events such as the G-7 and the European Central Bank monetary policy decisions. She also covered the Spanish and Greek general elections as part of the broader shift in European politics and followed the Italian government crisis securing an interview with Matteo Salvini.Reporting from the field across Europe, she has also landed interviews with top ranking European officials including French Finance Minister Bruno le Maire, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and European Central Bank governing council member Olli Rehn among others. Previously, Maria was based in Bloomberg’s London headquarters and the Madrid bureau. She graduated with a first class degree in journalism from City University London and received a scholarship from Banco Santander to complete a master’s degree in financial journalism. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French.