Erik Berglöf

Currently, Erik Berglöf is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Board Member and Research Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels, and Executive Board Member of the New Economic School in Moscow, research fellow and former programme director at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, Trustee of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation Archived 2020-08-15 at the Wayback Machine and Women for Women International.

[1] From 2015 to 2020 Erik Berglöf served as the inaugural Director of the London School of Economics' (LSE) Institute of Global Affairs (IGA).

From 2006 to 2015 Erik Berglöf was the Chief Economist and special adviser to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,[2] the London-based multilateral development bank established in 1991 to lead the economic transformation of the former Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, including the CIS nations.

Professor Erik Berglöf became the inaugural Director of the LSE's Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) on 1 February 2015.

[5][6][7][8] Its sequel Vienna Initiative 2.0[9] focuses on managing the impact of the adjustment of the European banking system in the wake of the crisis.

Berglöf has also been involved in policymaking and broader reform efforts around the Euro-crisis as a member of the INET Council on the Eurozone Crisis.

During his time at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) he built it into a leading international research institution [34] and helped establish several other think tanks in the emerging world: Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, Kyiv Economics Institute, WISER (now CenEA), and Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), research-based think tanks in Riga, Kyiv, Warsaw (now Szczecin), and Beijing, respectively.

[40][41] Previous academic posts include visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Scholar, Harvard Law School (John M. Olin Scholar), and Stanford University where he was also a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

[46] Erik Berglöf was born in Stockholm as the eldest of six children and grew up in Lund, Malmö and Östersund, Sweden.