Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship
The Bank for International Settlements invites applications from leading senior professionals in academia and research institutions for the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship.
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Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy, 1929-2015
Born in Hungary, and of Belgian citizenship, Alexandre Lamfalussy was General Manager of the BIS between May 1985 and December 1993. He joined the Bank in 1976 as Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department and became Deputy General Manager in 1981.
Many significant events in the Bank's history occurred under Mr Lamfalussy's leadership, reflecting his desire for the BIS to make a tangible contribution to international monetary and financial stability. These included the signing of the Basel Capital Accord, the establishment of the Group of Payment System Experts (now the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures) and the expansion of the BIS international banking statistics, now a major reference source for economists and other researchers.
Learn more about Alexandre Lamfalussy's life and achievements by watching a video made by the Central Bank of Hungary.
Current fellow
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is pleased to announce the appointment of ProfessorChristiane Baumeister as the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow for 2026.
Professor Baumeister is the Lambert Family Professor of Economics and Associate Chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. She holds several prominent research affiliations, including with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the Deutsche Bundesbank Research Center.
An accomplished empirical macroeconomist, Professor Baumeister's research focuses on the dynamics of energy markets and the transmission of monetary policy. Her recent work emphasises Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressive models and the high-frequency measurement of economic conditions. Her research has been featured in various leading academic journals.
Beyond her academic achievements, Professor Baumeister serves as an Associate Editor for the American Economic Review and other prestigious journals. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame in 2015, she was a Principal Researcher in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and several central banks.
Former fellows