Stephen G. Cecchetti is the Economic Adviser and the Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Research.

Prior joining the BIS in July 2008, Mr. Cecchetti held a number of positions including Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at the Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA; Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. In addition to a textbook entitled Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Professor Cecchetti has authored numerous articles in top scientific and policy journals focusing on macroeconomics and monetary policy. He has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times and is a founding contributor of VOX a policy portal.

Mr. Cecchetti holds an undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate from the University of California Berkeley. He is married with two children.