Erik F. Nielsen

Mr. Erik F.
Nielsen is Global Chief Economist at UniCredit Bank AG (London Branch).
He is responsible for forming and communicating the overall macroeconomic and policy views of UniCredit in the marketplace.
Prior to joining UniCredit, Mr. Nielsen worked for more than 15 years as an Economist at Goldman Sachs in New York as well as in London, where his last role was Chief European Economist overseeing the European and EEMEA economics team.
In this role, he has been widely recognized as an Opinion Leader on ECB policies as well as on recent years' European crisis.
Mr. Nielsen started his career as an Economist at the Danish Central Bank in Copenhagen, before joining the International Monetary Fund and later the World Bank.
At the IMF, he worked as an Economist for Eastern Europe, while at the World Bank he had a special focus on Russia and before that on the World Bank's involvement in the Brady Plan.
Mr. Nielsen holds a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.