Grégory Claeys, a French and Spanish citizen, joined Bruegel as a research fellow in February 2014. His main research interests include financial economics, international macro and finance, and central banking.

From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a macroeconomist in the Economic Research Department of the French bank Crédit Agricole where he was in charge of forecasts and analysis of the economic developments for various countries.

Prior to joining Bruegel he also held various short term positions as a visiting researcher in the financial research department of the Central Bank of Chile in Santiago, as an economist in the Economic Department of the French Embassy in Chicago and as a financial auditor in Paris.

He will defend his Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute (Florence) this spring, already holding a M.Sc. in Economics from Paris X University and a M.Sc. in Management from HEC (Paris). He previously taught undergraduate macroeconomics at Sciences Po (Paris).

Grégory is fluent in English, French and Spanish.