Stijn Claessens is an Executive Fellow at the Yale School of Management. Until September 2023, he was the Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS, where he led policy-based analyses of financial sector issues, oversaw central bank committee secretariats, and represented the BIS externally in senior groups. He also worked in various positions at the World Bank (1987-2006) and was Assistant Director in the Research Department of the IMF (2007 -2014) and Senior Adviser at the Federal Reserve Board (2015 to early 2017).
He holds a PhD from the Wharton School and an MA from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He taught at the New York University business school (1987) and at the University of Amsterdam (2001-2004). He is an associate editor at several journals, a CEPR fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Program on Financial Stability. He has published in many eminent journals, and written and edited several books, including Bank Failures and Contagion (G30, 2024), and Much Money, Little Capital and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil (ICMB/CEPR, 2024).
PhD, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1986
MS, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1984
