Signe Krogstrup

Signe Krogstrup (born 25 January 1972) is a Danish economist and one of the three governors of Danmarks Nationalbank, the Danish central bank. Previously she has worked for the Swiss National Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Early life and education

Signe Krogstrup holds a MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (1999) and a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland (2003).[1]

Career

In 2002–04, Krogstrup worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for the UN-ESCWA in Beirut. In 2004–07, she worked at the Post Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She then joined the Swiss National Bank, first as adviser to the vice-governor (2008-2010) and then as a senior economist (2010–11) before in 2011 being appointed Assistant Governor and deputy head of monetary policy analysis.

In 2012–13, she served as an external expert on the Danish government's Committee on the Identification, Regulation, and Resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions in Denmark. From August 2015 to April 2016, on leave from the Swiss National Bank, she was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[2] In 2015–19, she worked for the IMF in Washington, D.C.[1]

On 1 June 2019, she assumed a position as Assistant Governor and Head of Economics and Monetary Policy at the Danish central bank Danmarks Nationalbank. In November 2020 she succeeded Hugo Frey Jensen as one of the three members of Danmarks Nationalbank's Board of Governors.[3][4]

Personal life

Krogstrup is married and has two children (born 2005 and 2008).[1]

References
  1. "Signe Krogstrup" (PDF) (in Danish). Danmarks Nationalbank. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  2. "Signe Krogstrup". Peterson Institute for International Economics. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  3. "Signe Krogstrup is appointed as a member of Danmarks Nationalbank's Board of Governors". Danmarks Nationalbank. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  4. "Her er Nationalbankens nye direktør". Altinget. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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