Mats Wilhelmsson

Mats Wilhelmsson is Professor in Applied Financial Economics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) since 2008. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Stockholm in
Economics and his Ph.D. in Real Estate Economics from KTH in 2000. He is deputy director of the Center for Banking and Finance at KTH and his research is in the field of housing, real estate and urban economics. He has published numerous articles in leading journals in the field. He is currently on the advisory board of several scholarly journals. He is also active in the company Valueguard as scientific advisor and involved in the launch of NASDAQ OMX Valueguard-KTH Housing Index.

John Hassler

John Hassler is Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. He is associate editor of the Review of Economic Studies and Scandinavian Economic Review and an adjunct member of the Price Committee for the Price in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is a consultant to the Finance Ministry of Sweden and a former member of the Swedish Economic Council. His research covers areas in macroeconomics, political
economy, economic growth and public economics. He has published extensively in leading international journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Public Economics. John Hassler is a fellow of the net-works CESIfo, IZA and CEPR. He holds a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1994.

Carl B. Hamilton

Carl Peter Bastiat Hamilton (born 1 January 1946 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish economist and politician.

Hamilton has been a Member of Parliament for the Liberal People’s Party from 1997 to 1998 and again since 2002. He sits in the parliament’s Committee on the Labour Market and is vice-chair of the Committee on EU Affairs. He is also a member of the party board of the Liberal People’s Party.

From 1993 to 1994 he served as an Undersecretary of State at the Swedish Ministry for Finance.

Hamilton holds a doctorate in economics from London in 1974. From 1992 to 1997 he served as a professor in economics at the Stockholm University. During the mid 90s he worked as chief economist at Handelsbanken. Since 1999 he is a part-time professor in international economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Adolfo L. Laurenti

Adolfo L. Laurenti is a Senior Economist at Mesirow Financial. He works to develop ongoing economic research and commentary. He is author of Themes on the Global Markets, a monthly newsletter providing insight into trends, issues and the forecast for the global economy. He previously served as associate economist at LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO.

He is a graduate of Bocconi University Business School, Milan, Italy. He specialized in industrial organization as a visiting scholar at the Center for Industrial Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark, and specialized in financial economics at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He has a M.A. in Economics, George Mason University, and pursued doctoral studies at George Mason University.

Hubert Fromlet

Professor, Jönköping and Linneaus University

Hubert Fromlet is a professor at, Jönköping and Linneaus University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Wurzburg. Prior to to this he was chief economist at Swedbank, Stockholm, and professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Mr. Fromlet has also served as s chief economist at Co-operative Bank, Stockholm and was responsible for macro research at the SAAB-SCANIA, Sweden.

Eric Rosengren

Eric S. Rosengren became President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on July 23, 2007. Previously, Rosengren was executive vice president and head of the Bank’s department of supervision, regulation, and credit. An economist by training, he joined the Bank in 1985 as a member of the research department. In his research, Rosengren has made significant contributions in the fields of banking and monetary policy, and he has written extensively on macroeconomics, international banking, bank supervision, and risk management. He has been an author on a variety of papers on macroeconomics, banking, and risk management, including articles in many of the top economics and finance journals. He has served as an advisor on Japanese banking issues, and a focus of his research has been how financial problems can impact the real economy. While in the bank supervision function, he obtained significant domestic and international regulatory experience related to the Basel II Capital Accord. Rosengren holds a B.A. from Colby College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lars Nyberg

Lars Nyberg is Deputy Governor. He has been appointed by the Government to the Board of Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) and is the Riksbank’s representative in the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and the Committee of Global Financial Stability (CGFS) in Basel. Mr Nyberg is an associate professor in economics and has previously been Deputy CEO at Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank and CEO of Länsförsäkringsbolagens förening. Lars Nyberg is the Riksbank’s spokesperson regarding financial stability and a safe and efficient payment system.

Lars Nyberg’s term of office is six years from 1 January 2006. He was appointed to the Executive Board of the Riksbank in 1999 and has been re-elected twice.

Michael Drury

Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments

Michael Drury is the Chief Economist for McVean Trading & Investments, LLC. He joined the firm in 1992, after serving for five years as Vice President and Senior Economist with Allen Sinai at Shearson Lehman Brothers and his successor firm, The Boston Company Economic Advisors (both subsidies of American Express). Michael began his career in New York in 1982 as Senior Economist at A. Gary Shilling and Company. He completed his undergraduate education at the Georgia Institute of Technology and did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.