Danthine appointed to Board of Swiss National Bank

Jean-Pierre Danthine, a Research Fellow in CEPR's International Macroeconomics and Financial Economics programmes, has been appointed to the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank. He will take over management of Department III from January 2010.

Jean-Pierre Danthine (born 1950) has wide experience in the academic field and has held a large number of research contracts and lectureships at international universities. He taught at Columbia University in New York and was a visiting professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Université Laval in Québec, among others. He has been Managing Director of the Swiss Finance Institute since its establishment in 2005. The Swiss Finance Institute, which aims to be a leading research and teaching organisation in the area of banking and finance, cooperates closely with Switzerland's top universities.