Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform in London. She is an expert on European economics, the euro, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Central and Eastern Europe and energy security. She joined the CER in 2002 as chief economist, when she worked on European economic integration, EU enlargement, the euro and globalisation.

Katinka has acted as an advisor to the European Commission, several EU governments, the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum, as well as various financial institutions, multinationals and business federations. She has published widely and regularly comments on European developments in the media.

Katinka previously worked as an analyst and editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, where she also helped to develop the Viewswire briefing service. Until 1998, she was a consultant in Brussels. Katinka gained an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science, Economics and Law from LMU in Munich. She is a member of the advisory boards of FINCA, a micro-finance charity, and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a member of the Global Agenda Council on geopolitical risk.

Areas of expertise Russia, energy, the European economy and globalisation, the euro, EU enlargement and Turkey

Globalization, Global Economy,