Raphael Auer

Raphael Auer is head of the Eurosystem Centre of the BIS Innovation Hub, which will have offices in Frankfurt and Paris and – together with the central banks of the euro area and other Innovation Hub Centres – will explore technologies to improve the functioning of the global financial system. Before taking up his current assignment, he was Principal Economist in the BIS's Innovation and Digital Economy and Monetary Policy units. Before that, he was Deputy Head of the International Trade and Capital Flows unit at the Swiss National Bank, a Globalization and Governance Fellow at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a junior visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds a PhD in economics from MIT and is president of the Central Bank Research Association. He has written and published on various topics relating to international macroeconomics and exchange rate pass-through, as well as on cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDC. On these topics, he has also contributed to BIS policy publications and various international forums, including the G20-CPMI Cross-Border Payments Taskforce.

Fields of interest

• Monetary policy
• Financial market infrastructures
• International economics