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Faucher Léna

Léna Faucher

Léna Faucher is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Economic Policy in a dual-degree program between Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). With a background in economics and politics, her work primarily focuses on analyzing the implications of environmental policies on the macroeconomic landscape. She has notably published papers on the the role of the European Central Bank is stirring EU environmental protection strategy. Since January, she has been working as a consultant with the World Bank's C3A program, where she contributes to analyzing biodiversity and conservation policies in Europe.

Biodiversity COP 16: Where EU Member States Stand on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), or "Biodiversity COP 16", will take place in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1.

Buti Marco

Marco Buti

Since April 2023, Marco Buti holds the Tommaso Padoa Schioppa chair at the Robert Schuman Centre. Before joining the EUI, Buti was Chief of Staff of the Commissioner for the economy, Paolo Gentiloni. Between 2008 and 2019, he was Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission. Moreover, he has been the Commission Finance Deputy at G7 and G20.

A graduate of the universities of Florence and Oxford, he has published several books over the last two decades as well as many scholarly articles and policy papers on Economic and Monetary Union, the political economy of European integration, fiscal policies and policy mix, unemployment and welfare state reforms, the EU budget, and global economic governance.

In October 2021, he published the book 'The Man Inside – A European Journey through Two Crises', which revisits the European economic policy design and implementation over the past decade. In April 2023, he published the book 'Jean Monnet aveva ragione? - Costruire l’Europa in tempi di crisi'. In addition, he has recently piloted a research strand on European public goods.

A regular contributor to the daily 'Il Sole 24 ore', he is also a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and a member of the CEPR Research Policy Network.

Policy Brief n.29 - Why do EU Countries Resist Sharing Sovereignty?

The costs and benefits of sharing national sovereignty are different across EU countries. In our framework, costs mainly depend on the relative strengths of each national state and intermediate institutions.

Buch Claudia

Claudia Buch

Claudia Buch is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, appointed on 1 January 2024. She is a member of the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) of the Bank for International Settlements. Claudia Buch was the Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from May 2014 to December 2023, and before she was the President of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), professor of economics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Tübingen, and member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She worked for the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, was awarded a doctoral degree and a habilitation (German post-doc degree) by the University of Kiel, and she studied Economics at the University of Bonn.

UniCredit-Commerzbank Deal is Test Case for ECB

The UniCredit-Commerzbank deal is a test case for the ECB, which will reverberate into the future, and be a golden opportunity for its supervisory board to uphold its independence

Bank profitability: a mirror of the past, creating a vision for the future

A lecture by Claudia Buch, Chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism at European Central Bank

Morgane Gonon

Morgane Gonon is a PhD candidate in ecological economics at the CIRED (Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement). Her research focuses on North-South financial flows for biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. Her interdisciplinary background spans economics, political science, public policy, and law. She is an associate researcher at the French Development Bank and a World Bank C3A Program's Nature Transition Hub member.

Policy Brief n.28 - A Tale of Two Crises

Building on a previous analysis of the trends of convergence and divergence between peripheral and core EA-12 countries after the euro area sovereign debt crisis (Bordignon et al., 2023), this work investigates the long-term evolution of such differe...

Nicolò Gatti

Postdoc Researcher, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan