Paola Subacchi is director of the International Economics Department at Chatham House. She is an expert on the functioning and governance of the international financial and monetary systems, and advises governments, international organizations, non-profits and corporations.
She is the author of several books, reports and articles, a media commentator with the BBC, CCTV, Project Syndicate and the Financial Times, and the writer of regular columns for Foreign Policy and Huffington Post Italy. Her forthcoming book, The People’s Money: How China is Building a Global Currency, will be published by Columbia University Press.
Paola is also a visiting professor at the University of Bologna, a non-executive director of the FTSE-listed company Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Plc, a governor of St Marylebone School in London and an advisory member of Wilton Park.
An Italian national, she studied at Università Bocconi in Milan and at the University of Oxford.
Paul van den Noord joined Chatham House as an associate fellow in 2014. He spent most of his career at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, most recently as a counsellor to the chief economist. From 2007 to 2010, he was seconded as an economic adviser to the European Commission in Brussels.
He has published widely on fiscal and monetary policy, the political economy of reform, and European economic and monetary union. His publications include Economic Crisis in Europe: Causes, Consequences and Responses (Routledge, 2011) and numerous articles in academic journals. He holds a PhD in macroeconomics from the University of Amsterdam.
Paul van den Noord contributed to this paper in a personal capacity and any views herein solely belong to him or the co-author.