Professor Dirk Niepelt
Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Bern
Dirk Niepelt is professor of macroeconomics at the University of Bern and leader of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on FinTech and Digital Currencies. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London); fellow at SUERF—The European Money and Finance Forum; CESifo (Munich) research network member; and member of the macroeconomic committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik. He is also a member of the Bank of England‘s CBDC Academic Advisory Group and serves on the Foundation Council of Zukunft.li.
His research and teaching covers topics in macroeconomics, monetary economics, international finance, and public finance, and he frequently contributes to the public debate. He is the author of the MIT Press textbook “Macroeconomic Analysis”.
Dirk Niepelt received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he holds licentiate and doctorate degrees from the University of St. Gallen.
