Stijn Claessens

Former Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the MED

Stijn Claessens represented the BIS externally in senior groups, including the Financial Stability Board, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the G20. Within the BIS, he led policy-based analyses of financial sector issues and oversees the work of the secretariats of Committee on the Global Financial System, Markets Committee and Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures. Between 1987 and 2006, he worked at the World Bank in various positions. From 2007 to 2014, he was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. From 2015 to early 2017, he was Senior Adviser in the Division of International Finance of the Federal Reserve Board. He holds a PhD in business economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He taught at the New York University business school and the University of Amsterdam.

All BIS publications (21)

BIS Paper No 167 11 Mar 2026

Cross-border payment technologies: innovations and challenges

Cross-border payments (XBP), particularly remittances and retail transactions, remain more costly, slower, less accessible, and…

About the BIS

Careers at the BIS

Research & publications

BIS authors

About the Committees

Speeches

Data Portal

Media centre

Stijn Claessens

Former Head of Financial Stability Policy and Deputy Head of the MED

All BIS publications (21)

Cross-border payment technologies: innovations and challenges

Macroprudential and monetary policy tightening: more than a double whammy?

Entity-based vs activity-based regulation: a framework and applications to traditional financial firms and big techs

Interoperability between payment systems across borders

Open-ended bond funds: systemic risks and policy implications

Regulating big techs in finance

Do macroprudential policies affect non-bank financial intermediation?

Tools for managing banking distress: historical experience and lessons for today

Fragmentation in global financial markets: good or bad for financial stability?

All external publications (221)

Doubling up? Bank lending and risk-taking when tightening both macroprudential and monetary policies

Macroprudential policies and global finance

Do macroprudential policies affect non-bank financial intermediation?

Collateral damage

Financial stability governance and central bank communications

Entity-based vs activity-based regulation: A framework and applications to traditional financial firms and big techs

Finance and climate change risk: managing expectations

How do bank-specific characteristics affect lending? New evidence based on credit registry data from Latin America

Corporate governance in emerging markets: a selective review and an agenda for future research

All videos (4)

Policy panel: Bringing data protection, competition policy and financial regulation together

Stijn Claessens speaks about the BIS's anniversary volume Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability

Impact of financial regulations: insights from an online repository of studies

Regulation and structural change in financial systems

You might also be interested in

Publications

Speeches

Media releases