Natacha Valla (Past Speaker)

Natacha Valla is Deputy Director General of DG Monetary Policy at the European Central Bank. She also teaches at NYU. Her areas of focus are international macro, monetary and financial economics. 

Before 2018, Natacha Valla was Head of the Policy and Strategy Division of the European Investment Bank, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the groups LVMH, Accor and ASF/Cofiroute, and of the supervisory board of Tikehau Capital. Prior to that, she acted as deputy director of CEPII, a French think tank in international economics, while being a permanent member of the “Conseil d’Analyse Economique” with the French Prime Minister. 

Between 2008 and 2014, she was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Global Economic Research after having been an economist and researcher at the ECB between 2001 and 2008. In 2005, she was seconded to the Research Directorate of the Banque de France. Previously, she had also been a consultant for the IMF and the OECD, and taught at the Universities of Florence, Paris-Dauphine, H.E.C. and Sciences-Po Paris.

Natacha Valla received a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence) in 2003.