Rolf Strauch
Rolf Strauch is Chief Economist and Management Board Member at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which he joined in 2010. Mr Strauch is in charge of the divisions Economic and Market Analysis, Economic Risk Analysis, and Financial Sector and Market Analysis. Overall, he is responsible for economic and financial analysis and policies and the country monitoring work that the two rescue funds undertake. He represents the ESM in the international and European fora. Mr Strauch is also a member in advisory committees of several academic institutions.
Prior to this, Mr Strauch worked at the European Central Bank from 2000–2010 in the Directorate General Economics on fiscal, monetary, and structural policies. He also served previously as an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank and as a researcher at both the University of Mannheim and the University of Bonn.
Mr Strauch holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn. He is a fellow at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn. He is leading the CEPR research policy network on European Economic Policy (EEP) together with Giancarlo Corsetti since February 2025.
He is the author of numerous articles, opeds, blogs posts and economic publications.
