Ernest Gnan

Ernest Gnan received his PhD in economics at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, in 1989. He started out his professional career as an investment fund manager in 1987 and joined the Oesterreichische Nationalbank as an economist in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the European Commission, DG ECFIN, in Brussels and in 1994 to the European Monetary Institute, the ECB’s forerunner institution, in Frankfurt. In 1998, Dr Gnan became Deputy Head of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank’s Foreign Research Division; since 1999, he has been Head of the Bank’s Economic Analysis Division. In 2006, he was appointed Counsel to the Board. Dr Gnan is member of the European Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and member of the Austrian Government Debt Committee. Since 2007, Dr Gnan also serves as Secretary General of SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum. Dr Gnan has been giving numerous lectures on issues related to macroeconomics, monetary union and European integration; since 2005 lecturer at the University of Vienna.