Rudi Vander Vennet

Rudi Vander Vennet is full professor of financial economics and banking at Ghent University and program director of the advanced Master in Banking and Finance. He also teaches banking at Solvay Business School (ULB Brussels). His research interests include European banking, financial intermediation, monetary policy and macroprudential policy. He has published large parts of his research in leading academic and professional journals. He has a broad experience as an economic and banking expert, e.g., as (past) member of the board of directors of financial firms, as member of the Belgian High Finance Council, as member of the Bank Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority and as policy advisor.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• European banking
• Financial intermediation
• Monetary policy and macroprudential policy

EDUCATION

• 1994 PhD in Economics, Ghent University
• 1993 Graduate Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, W.E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester - New York
• 1988 Advanced Master Degree in Finance, Ghent University
• 1987 Master Degree in Economics, Ghent University

CAREER

• 1994 – GHENT UNIVERSITY
  • Head of the Department of Financial Economics
  • Full-time Professor
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Lecturer
• 2012 – now Solvay Business School
  • lecturer
• 1988 – 1992 NATIONAL FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
  • researcher