Marcel Fratzscher

Who is Marcel Fratzscher?

Marcel Fratzscher is a German economist. On 18 July 2012 it was announced he will become president of the Berlin based economic research institute DIW. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. According to a ranking in Handelsblatt, Fratzscher is one of the most influential German-speaking economists.

His field of interests include macroeconomics and monetary economics, in particular the economic effects of central bank announcements.

Fratzscher holds a Vordiplom degree from the University of Kiel, a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the Trinity College, Oxford, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Fratzscher coincidentally worked at the Harvard Center for International Development in Jakarta, Indonesia giving him a close up view of a country affected by the crisis.