Monetary and Economic Department, Financial Markets
Marco Jacopo Lombardi joined the BIS in June 2012 from the ECB, where he worked in the Directorate General Economics. While with the ECB, Marco also spent five months as a visitor to the International Department of the Bank of Canada. Prior to joining the ECB, he was assistant professor at the University of Pisa and taught Bayesian econometrics, statistics and time series analysis. Marco holds a PhD in applied statistics from the University of Florence and has been Max Weber Fellow of the European University Institute. Before joining the BIS Financial Markets team in 2023, he worked in the Macroeconomic Analysis and Monetary Policy units, as well as in the Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific. Marco's research covers a broad range of applied issues, including monetary policy, inflation, commodities, forecasting, econometric methods and macroeconometric models.