Natacha Valla (born January 1, 1976) is a French economist and Dean of the

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School of Management and Innovation. She was Deputy Director General for monetary policy at the European Central Bank from May 2018 to January 2020. She is also chair of the SUERF, European Money and Finance forum, editorial board.

Background and education

Valla was born in Marseille, France. When she was six, her family moved to Gabon for her father's career, who was an engineer at

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. After graduating from high school in Lyon, she was enrolled in a literary Higher School Preparatory Class in the Lycée du Parc. She holds a master's degree from Georgetown University. She is also a graduate from the European University Institute, where she completed her PhD thesis titled ''Learning and distribution in monetary economics.''

Career

Valla started her career as an economist at the European Central Bank in 2001. In 2008, Valla was appointed executive director at

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Global Economic Research, focusing on the study of the eurozone. From 2014 to 2016, she was deputy director of CEPII, the main French think tank in international economy according to the World Economic Forum, before joining the

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in 2016 as head of Policy Strategy division. During this period, she was also a permanent member of the

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, part of the scientific committee of the ACPR, the French Banking Regulatory Body. She was appointed Deputy Director General of the European Central Bank in 2018.

Academic career

Valla has published research on numerous subjects in the field of international finance, monetary and applied macro-economics. She was a fellow at the

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and a member of the French Société d'Economie Politique. She is also co-author of a textbook of financial macroeconomics and has taught at the University of Florence, the

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and

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. She currently teaches at New York University in Abu Dhabi.

Other activities

Corporate boards

* Wakam, Observer on the Board of Directors (since 2021) * LVHM, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016) *

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, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016) * Autoroutes SA, Member of the Board of Directors * SCOR SE, Member of the Board of Directors

Non-profit organizations

* Arte, Member of the Programme Advisory Committee * Institut Montaigne, Member of the Board of Directors * Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), Member of the Advisory Council

Awards

In 2000, Valla was awarded the SCE Prize in Computational Economics for her graduate research. In 2018, Valla was recipient of the French

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Personal life

Valla is the mother of two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Valla, Natacha 1976 births Living people 21st-century French economists French women economists Academic staff of New York University Abu Dhabi Writers from Marseille Recipients of the Ordre national du Mérite