Erik Berglöf

Erik Berglöf (born 1957) is a Swedish economist, currently the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in Asia. In March 2019 Erik Berglöf was appointed to the European Council's [https://www.devex.com/news/wise-persons-to-scrutinize-eu-development-finance-94662 High Level Group of Wise Persons on the European financial architecture for development] where [https://www.devex.com/news/wise-persons-to-scrutinize-eu-development-finance-94662 Berglöf and eight other economists will suggest changes] to the EU's development finance structure. In 2017–2018 Erik Berglöf served on the secretariat of the G20 [https://www.globalfinancialgovernance.org/about-g20-epg/epg-members/ Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance] and on the Governing Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York.

Currently, Erik Berglöf is also a [https://www.brookings.edu/experts/erik-berglof/ non-resident Senior Fellow] at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., [https://ecgi.global/users/erik-berglof Board Member and Research Fellow] of the [https://ecgi.global/ European Corporate Governance Institute] in Brussels, and [https://www.nes.ru/governance&lang=en 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, [https://www.womenforwomen.org/about/our-team/erik-berglof Trustee] of the [http://www.biancajagger.org/ Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation] and Women for Women International.

From 2015 to 2020 Erik Berglöf served as the inaugural Director of the [https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga 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, 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. Provided by Wikipedia