Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at the London Business School, a trustee of the Center of European Policy Research (CEPR) and of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation. She is a columnist for the Italian national daily Il Corriere della Sera and a regular contributor of Project Syndicate.
Reichlin received a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. From 2005 to 2008 she was the Director General of Research at the European Central Bank. She was previously a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. From 2013 to 2016 she was Chair of the Scientific Council at the think-tank Bruegel. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy and the European Economic Association. She in an Honorary Fellow of the American Economic Association. She is on the advisory board of several research and policy institutions around the world and she is a non-executive directors of few commercial boards.
Reichlin has been an active contributor to the life of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She was research director in 2011-2013, first Chairman of the CEPR Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee, co-founder and scientist in charge of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network, and she is now a trustee as well as a member of its advisory board.
Reichlin has published numerous papers on econometrics and macroeconomics. She is an expert on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy. She pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world.