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Elga Bartsch
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Director General for Economic Policy
Description
Dr. Elga Bartsch is Director General for Economic Policy at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin, Germany. She is also the Ministry’s sustainability coordinator. The remit of the Economic Policy Directorate includes a broad set of economic policy issues including competition policies, public procurement, regional and structural policies, macroeconomic projections, policy evaluation as well as economic policy research. As part of her position Ms. Bartsch also is on the supervisory boards of several Leibniz Economic Research Institutes and the German Federal Employment Agency. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the KENFO - German Nuclear Waste Management Fund.
Prior to joining the Ministry Ms. Bartsch has worked in the financial services industry for 25 years and most recently headed the economic and markets research at the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). Prior to joining BlackRock in 2018, Ms. Bartsch was Global Co-Head of Economics and Chief European Economist at Morgan Stanley in London. Elga started her career as a research associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a large German economic think-tank where she worked at the President's office and managed the Advanced Studies in International Economic Policy Research, a post-graduate program in international macroeconomics. Having studied at the University of Hannover and the London School of Economics, Ms. Bartsch graduated with a Master's degree from Kiel University where she subsequently also completed a PhD in environmental economics.
Moreover Ms. Bartsch has more than 20 years of macro research experience. During this time she was a member of the ECB Shadow Council for many years. She also served on and chaired the Economic and Monetary Policy Committee of the German Banking Association and was a panelist on the US Monetary Policy Forum hosted by the University of Chicago. In addition to her market research publications, she co-authored the Geneva Report on the World Economy No. 23: It’s all in the mix: How monetary and fiscal policies can work together or fail together alongside Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Giancarlo Corsetti, and Xavier Debrun, CEPR, 2020.
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