Patrick Van Roy

Patrick Van Roy is advisor in the Department of Prudential Policy and Financial Stability at the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) since 2005. His tasks mainly consist in contributing to policy making in financial stability issues and leading projects focusing on credit risk and stress testing. In this context, he was recently seconded to the ECB where he coordinated part of the 2016 EU-wide stress test exercise. In the past, he was also seconded to the cabinet of the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister to support the Belgian presidency of the European Council. He regularly represents the NBB in working groups at the ECB, the European Banking Authority and the Basel Committee, and has been a teaching assistant and then lecturer at ULB for more than 10 years.

Patrick holds an undergraduate degree (‘Licence’) in Economics from ULB, a master degree (MPhil) in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate degree in Economics from ECARES (ULB).

Education

• Université libre de Bruxelles - PhD, Economics 2001 - 2006
• University of Cambridge - MPhil, Economics 2000 - 2001
• Université libre de Bruxelles - BA, Economics 1996 - 2000
• Tilburg University - Exchange student, Economics 1998 - 1999