Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Weder di Mauro at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in 2012
Born August 3, 1965
Basel
Nationality Swiss, Italy
Institution University of Mainz
Field Economic policy, International Macroeconomics
Alma mater University of Basel
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Beatrice Weder di Mauro (born August 3, 1965) is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mainz in Germany. From June 2004 to 2012 she was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She was the first woman and the first non-German in the council.[1]

Education

Mrs Weder di Mauro studied economics at the University of Basel and received a Master's degree in 1989, a Doctorate in Economics in 1993, followed by a post-doctoral research fellow from the University of Basel in 1994 and a research fellow from the United Nations University, in Tokyo from 1997 to 1998.[2]

Professional history

From 1994 to 1996 she was an economist with the International Monetary Fund, and from 1996 to 1997 with the World Bank in Washington DC.[2]

From 1998 to 2001, Mrs di Mauro was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Basel, where she previously occupied the position of a scientific assistant in the period from 1989 to 1993.[2]

Since 2001, di Mauro has been a Professor of Economics, Economic Policy & International Macroeconomics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.[2]

From 2002 to 2004, she was a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Economy in Bern,[2] and from August 2004 to 2012, Prof. di Mauro served on Germany's Council of Economic Experts.[2]

In 2003, di Mauro was a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), in London.[2]

Corporate mandates and other interests

From April 2005 to May, 2010, she served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG.[2]

Since February 2006, Prof. di Mauro has been a Director of Roche Holding AG,[2] and also in 2006, a visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.[2]

From 2007 to 2012, she served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH.[2]

From January 2010 to October 2013, she served as a member of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG,[2] and since 2010 she has been a member of the European Advisory Group, in USA,[2] as well as the chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Financial Crisis at the World Economic Forum.[2] Furthermore, in 2010, she was a resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington DC.[2]

Since 2011, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH.[2]

In May 2012, di Mauro was elected to the Board of Directors of UBS AG, and subsequently, after the restructuring in 2014, she became a member of the Board of Directors of UBS Group AG,[2] and occupies the position of a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the Risk Committee.[3]

Since March 2013, she has also been a member of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH.[2]

In addition, she serves currently as deputy chairman of the University Council of the University of Mainz, as a member of the Corporate Governance Commission of the German Government, as a member of the Senate of the Max Planck Society and member of the Global Agenda Council on Sovereign Debt of the World Economic Forum.[2] She also serves as a member of the Economic Advisory Board at Fraport AG, and as an advisory board member of Deloitte Germany.[2]

Previously she served as a consultant for various international organizations including the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, the IMF, the United Nations University, the OECD Development Center and the European Commission.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "rise of the undaunted empiricist" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-01-18.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 "Beatrice Weder di Mauro Ph.D., B.E.". BloombergBusiness. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ "UBS Board of Directors". https://www.ubs.com''. UBS.com. Retrieved 21 March 2015.

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