Frank Smets

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I am an Adviser in the Counsel to the Executive Board at the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany and a part-time professor of economics at the Department of Economics of Ghent University (UGent) in Belgium.

From 2017 till 2022 I was Director General of DG Economics at the ECB, leading the economics department, responsible for the economic analysis of the euro area economy. I was also Secretary for Monetary Policy of the ECB's Governing Council and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Eurosystem committee that prepares ECB monetary policy decisions. Finally, I coordinated the ECB's monetary policy strategy review as chair of the project office.

My research fields are monetary economics and applied macroeconomics. You will find some of my recent research here.

You can contact me at frank.smets@ugent.be or frank.smets@ecb.europa.eu .