Diego Rodriguez Palenzuela

Education:

Licenciado (B.A.), Economics (Economía Cuantitativa), Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1988.

PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

Positions held:

January 2014 – present                                                                                                                          

Head of the Output and Demand Division, DG-Economics, ECB. 

Responsibilities of the Output and Demand Division (OAD)
Divisional tasks: Monitoring, analyzing and conducting studies from a monetary policy perspective on conjunctural and structural macroeconomic developments in the euro area and in the largest five economies. Organizing high level research and policy conferences (ECB-MIT conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the EU, March 2017; ECB-CEPR seminar series on labor markets).
Other responsibilities for ECB tasks: Organizer of the ECB – MIT High Level Conference on “Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation in he EU; Coordinator for research on output growth and competitiveness for the Eurosystem’s Research Coordination Committee; Head of the Eurosystem Task Force of the Eurosystem Task Force on the measurement of potential output growth; Head of the Eurosystem Task Force on sectoral macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area (produced the 2015 Structural Issues Report).

May 2012 – December 2013

ECB Mission Chief for Ireland’s EU-IMF Financial Assistance Programme

February 2009 – December 2013                                                                                                           

Head of the Capital Markets and Financial Structure Division, DG-Economics, ECB.

June 2004 – January 2009                                                                                                                     

Senior Adviser, Monetary Policy Assessment and Implementation Unit, DG-Economics, ECB.

May 2002 – May 2004                                                                                                                         

Principal Economist, Monetary Policy Strategy Division, DG-Economics, ECB.

May 2001 – April 2002

Principal Economist, Euro Area Macroeconomic Developments Division, DG-Economics, ECB.

August 1999 – April 2001                                                                                                                     

Senior Economist, Econometric Modelling Division, DG-Research, ECB.

September 1993 – June 1999                                                                                                                 

Senior Staff Researcher, Applied Economics Research Foundation (FEDEA), Madrid, Spain.