Ernest Gnan

Dr. Ernest Gnan is a Counsel to the Board & Head of Economic Analysis at Österreichische Nationalbank.
He joined the Oesterreichische Nationalbank as an Economist in 1988.
In 1998, Dr. Gnan became Deputy Head of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank’s Foreign Research Division.
Since 2006, Dr. Gnan has also served as Secretary-General of SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum.
Since 2005, he has been a lecturer at the University of Vienna, and since 2006 lecturer at the Austrian Academy of Accountants.
His publications cover monetary policy, central banking, inflation and inflation expectations, macroeconomic imbalances, financial markets, banking and financial regulation, globalization, economic growth, economic, institutional, and legal aspects of EMU, exchange rate policy, the European and international monetary system, banking and finance.
He started his professional career as an investment fund manager in 1987.
In 1992, he moved to the European Commission, DG ECFIN, in Brussels and in 1994 to the European Monetary Institute, the ECB´s forerunner institution, in Frankfurt.
He was an adjunct professor at Webster University, Vienna and lecturer at the German Association for Financial Analysts for several years.
Dr. Gnan received his Ph.D.
in economics at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, in 1989.