Erik Berglöf is the inaugural Chief Economist at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
He sets the vision and strategy for the Economics Department and leads the planning,
implementation and supervision of its work plan in support of the Bank’s mandate. Prior to
joining AIIB in September 2020, he was Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, London School
of Economics, and Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
from 2006 to 2015, where he was part of creating, and co-led, the Vienna Initiative, a European
crisis response team credited with mitigating the impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. He
is an expert in transition economics and institutional transformation through private sector
development. He has been a nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution since 2006.
He served as a Professor at the London School of Economics and Stockholm School of
Economics, and an Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles; in addition, he has
held visiting positions at Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT). He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and an MA in Business and
Economics, both from the Stockholm School of Economics. Berglöf has published widely on
financial development, corporate governance and transition economics.