Stefan Gerlach

Stefan Gerlach is Deputy Governor (Central Banking) in the Central Bank of Ireland. His previous positions was as Professor of Monetary Economics at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at the University of Frankfurt and a CEPR Research Fellow. He has served as Head of Secretariat to the Committee on the Global Financial System at the BIS, as Executive Director (Research) at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. He received his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva in 1983, received tenure at Brandeis University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard and Brown Universities, and at the INSEAD. He has published some 50 articles and edited two books in the areas of monetary economics, international finance and financial stability. Much of his current research focuses on the role of asset prices in monetary policy.