Fiorella De Fiore is Research Adviser and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She previously held the position of Head of Monetary Policy in the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, and of Adviser in the Monetary Policy Research Division and in the Financial Research Division of the ECB. She holds a PhD in economics from the European University Institute and a MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. Her main research is in the field of monetary and financial economics, and focuses on macro-financial linkages and their implications for monetary policy. She has published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, among others.