Adviser

Stijn Claessens is Head of the Financial Stability policy department at the Bank of International Settlements, where he leads policy-based analyses of financial sector issues, overseeing central bank committee secretariats, and represented the BIS externally in senior groups.

  • He is an Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Management.

  • He also worked in various positions at the World Bank (1987-2006) and was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the IMF (2007 -2014) and Senior Adviser at the Federal Reserve Board (2015 to early 2017).

  • He taught at the New York University’s business school (1987) and at the University of Amsterdam (2001-2004).

  • He has published in many eminent journals, and written many books, including recently Bank Failures and Contagion and Much Money, Little Capital and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil.

  • Stijn holds a PhD from the Wharton School and an MA from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Stijn Claessens