Staff
Karel Lannoo
CEO, CEPS and Director of ECRI
Phone: +32 (0)2 2293 956
Isabelle.Tenaerts(at)ceps.eu
Karel Lannoo has been chief executive of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2000 and senior research fellow since 1997. He is a member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (ESFRC) and has published widely on EU and financial regulation matters. He holds an MA in history from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1985) in and a postgraduate degree in European studies from the University of Nancy, France (1986). Karel Lannoo is an independent director of BME (Bolsas Y Mercados Espanoles), the company which runs the Madrid stock exchange.
Marc Rothemund
Research Fellow
Phone: +32 (0)2 2293 936
Marc.Rothemund(at)ceps.eu
Marc Rothemund has been working at the European Credit Research Institute since May 2007. He joined the Institute while majoring in International Economics, Empirical Economic Research and Theory of Financial Markets at the University of Regensburg, Germany. During the course of his studies, he spent on year in Zaragoza, Spain, and graduated with a diploma in economics in January 2008. Having worked on international research projects for the European Commission, private entities and the World Bank, Marc Rothemund has gained working experience in the areas of credit reporting, credit statistics, payment systems and over-indebtedness. In 2007, he took over the production of ECRI's flagship publication, the "Statistical Package" on consumer credit and lending to households.
Maria Gerhardt
Research Assistant
Phone: +32 (0)2 2293 945
Maria.Gerhardt(at)ceps.eu
Maria Gerhardt joined CEPS in July 2008 and is a Research Assistant at the European Credit Research Institute. She holds a Master in Economics, with specialization in Infonomics from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, and a Research Master in International Relations and History from the University of La Rochelle, France. During her studies, she spent a total of 14 months in
Caterina Giannetti
Associate Researcher
c.giannetti(at)uvt.nl
Caterina Giannetti completed her PhD in Economics at the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy, in April 2008. She is currently conducting research at Jena Graduate School Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change (GSBC). Prior to Jena, Caterina spent one year at the Department of Finance at Tilburg University, with her main research field being empirical industrial organisation with a special focus on the banking industry, and six month as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Operational Research and Econometrics (CORE) at Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium. Her current research projects focus on the effects of banks' information-sharing through credit registers on the structure and competitiveness of the European banking system.
Phone: +34 91 338 5098
almudena.delamata(at)bde.es
In 2005, Almudena de la Mata Munoz was appointed honorary Research Associate of the European Credit Research Institute where she used to be Head of Research between 2003 and 2005. She is currently legal counsel at Banco de Espana (Spanish Central Bank). Her previous working experience includes positions as global responsible for Policy Development and Regulatory Risk at Central Compliance Fortis Bank (MPB) and Europe's Legal and Regulatory Counsel for GE International - Morgage Insurance. She has been scientific researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for International Private Law and Foreign Law in Hamburg. She is associated to the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Hamburg University as lecturer for civil law, business law and international private law. Ms de la Mata has served as advisor to the European Commission and the German Central Bank.
