Kirstin Hubrich

Kirstin Hubrich is Deputy Director General Financial Stability at the Deutsche Bundesbank since July 1, 2023. Prior to that appointment she was Head of the International Economics Section at the Austrian Central Bank, and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem. Previously, Kirstin served at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) from 2015 to 2022. She joined the Federal Reserve Board as a Principal Economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Division Research and Statistics, and was Chief of the Prices and Wages Section in the Research and Statistics Division. In the Program Direction of Research and Statistics the focus of her responsibilities was on the interaction of the financial system and the macroeconomy, financial projections and financial stability. She has also served as the Federal Reserve Board Representative in the G7 Working Group on Digitalization. Prior to the appointment to the Federal Reserve Board Kirstin held various positions at the European Central Bank (ECB) over 14 years, namely in the Financial Research Division and the Econometric Modelling Division of the Research Department as well as the Monetary Policy Strategy Division in the Monetary Policy Department. Before joining the ECB she has held positions as research fellow and economist at the Dutch Central Bank. 

Kirstin received her Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin, where she was also Research Associate at the National Research Center ‘Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes’. She has published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics and the Journal of Econometrics, and has served as a guest editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics. She has recently been Visiting Professor at the Free University Berlin (Stiftungsprofessur der Deutschen Bundesbank) teaching courses on empirical macro, monetary policy and empirical macro-finance at the Masters and PhD as well as Undergraduate level in that context and previously as a Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. She served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) from 2005-2009, has co-organized the scientific program of numerous academic conferences and workshops, and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria, 2017-2022 and is a member of the Econometric Committee of the German Economic Association. Kirstin has held visiting positions at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.