Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been Director of Bruegel since September 2022. Born in Madrid in 1964, Jeromin was previously a Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prior to that, he was Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow (2019) and Senior Fellow (2016-19) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-16); Director of Research and Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2008-2014), and an IMF staff member, where he worked in the Research, Western Hemisphere, and European II Departments (1994-2008).

Alexander Brown’s research focuses on industrial policy and foreign economic policy. Before joining MERICS, he was an Associate Consultant and Project Consultant at APCO Worldwide in Frankfurt am Main and Beijing. Alexander holds a Master’s degree in international political economy from Peking University, and a Bachelor in politics and international relations from the University of Melbourne.