Professor Javier Suarez

Javier Suarez is a Professor of Finance at CEMFI, Madrid. He earned a PhD in Economics at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, in 1994. After a postdoctoral stay in Harvard University, he became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1994. He joined CEMFI in 1996, where he became a tenured Associate Professor in 2001 and a Full Professor in 2004.

His research and teaching activities cover mainly the areas of corporate finance and banking, with a special focus on the analysis of bank regulation, the linkages between macroeconomics and banking, and macro-prudential policies. He has numerous publications in top economics and finance journals.

During and in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, he participated in numerous initiatives bringing together academics and policy makers for the discussion of key challenges for policies regarding banks, their regulation, and the wider implications for the economy. In 2011 he was a Swiss Finance Institute Visiting Professor at the University of Zurich, an invited lecturer at the Bank of Japan, and a visiting scholar at the New York Fed. In 2013-2014 he served as an academic advisor to the Macro-prudential Research Network (MaRs) of the European System of Central Banks. Since March 2018 he is Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), of which he was a Vice-chair between March 2015 and February 2018.