Beatrice Weder di Mauro

Weder di Mauro spent her childhood with her family in Guatemala before returning to Switzerland at the age of sixteen. From 1971 to 1980, she studied in a German school in Guatemala and in 1984 she obtained the high school diploma in Basel. The different standards of living of Switzerland and Guatemala sparked her interest in economics. She later enrolled at the University of Basel, where she studied economics and received a Doctorate in Economics in 1993 and Habilitation in economics in 1999. ==Professional history==

Weder di Mauro joined the International Monetary Fund as an economist in 1994 and the World Bank in Washington DC to work on the team of the World Development Report in 1996. From 1997 to 1998 she was Research Fellow-in-residence at United Nations University in Tokyo and from 1998 to 2001 associate professor of economics at the University of Basel. From 2002 to 2004, she was a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Economy in Bern, Weder di Mauro's ongoing work involves a multitude of topics such as international competitiveness and offshoring, global financial architecture, and financial institution reform. Primarily, she tends to focus on these topics in the region of the "euro zone". == Other activities ==

Corporate boards • Unigestion, Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors (since 2021) • Robert Bosch GmbH, Member of the supervisory board (since 2013) • Bombardier Inc., Member of the supervisory board (2016–2021) • Bocconi University, Member of the International Advisory Council • Brookings Institution, Member of the Committee on International Economic and Policy Research (CIEPR) • University of Mainz, Deputy Chairman of the University Council • ETH Zurich Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees • Bellagio Group, Member (since 2014) • World Economic Forum (WEF), Member of the Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability ==Selected publications==

• • • • • • Five essays on economic causes of corruption. WWZ-Forum, Basel 2002. • Institutional reform in transition economics. International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, 2001. • Model, myth or miracle. United Nations University Press, Tokio 1999, . • Wirtschaft zwischen Anarchie und Rechtsstaat. Rüegger, Chur 1993, . ==References==