Alain Durré

Alain Durré is currently Principal Economist in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the Directorate General Economics (Directorate Monetary Policy) of the European Central Bank and Associate Professor of Finance at IÉSEG-School of Management from Lille Catholic University. He is also a member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (LEM-CNRS).

On occasion he is also acting as Monetary Policy Advisor for the International Monetary Fund on topics related to the money market and the conduct of monetary policy (strategy and implementation) and teaches at the Economics School of Louvain from the Université catholique de Louvain. He was educated at Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels), the University of Mannheim (Germany) and at the Université catholique de Louvain from which he holds a PhD in financial economics. He then moved to the National Bank of Belgium as a member of the Research Department before joining the Monetary Policy Stance Division in the Directorate Monetary Policy at the European Central Bank in 2004.

He has also spent previously some time as Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank and as visiting scholar at the London School of Economics during his PhD programme. From 2010 to 2013 he was Principal Economist in the Financial Research Division of the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank. He has published various papers on monetary and financial economics in many leading academic journals. In 2005 he has been awarded the Josseph de la Vega Prize for his work on the microstructure analysis of the Euronext Stock Exchange focusing on volatility regimes and the provision of liquidity in order book markets. He is co-editor with Jagjit Chadha, Mike Joyce and Lucio Sarno of the book on Developments in Macro-Finance Yield Curve Modelling published by Cambridge University Press in February 2014.