Early beginnings Back in Europe, she worked at the
European University Institute in
Florence. In 1988 she went to
France to the Pariser Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, where she was director of the research department. After working as a visiting professor at
Columbia University in the
United States from 1993 to 1994, Reichlin worked as a professor of economics at the
Université libre de Bruxelles.
European Central Bank, 2005–2008 From 2005 to 2008, Reichlin served as Director General of Research at the
European Central Bank in Frankfurt, under the leadership of
President Jean-Claude Trichet; she was the first woman in that role.
Return to academia Since 2008, Reichlin has been professor of economics at
London Business School. She has published articles in prestigious international journals, such as the
Review of Economic Studies and the
Journal of Econometrics. For the
National Bureau of Economic Research she edited volumes III (2006) and VI (2009) of the "International Seminar on Macroeconomics" series published by the
University of Chicago Press. She is a member of the
British Academy, of the
Academia Europæa and of the board of the
Royal Economic Society In addition to her academic work, Reichlin holds the role of non-executive director on numerous Boards of Directors including Messaggerie Italiane Group (Milan),
Eurobank Ergasias (Athens) and
Ageas (Brussels). From 2009 to 2018 she held the position of non-executive director of
Unicredit Group. In 2014, Reichlin was mentioned in international news media as a potential candidate to succeed
Mark Carney as
Governor of the Bank of England or
Fabrizio Saccomanni as
Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Since 2014, Reichlin has been a regular contributor to
Project Syndicate. On 20 September 2018 Reichlin was appointed Deputy-Chairperson of the Board of Directors of
Banca Carige, representing the majority shareholder Vittorio Malacalza. She resigned three months later, in December, after the capital increase planned for the bank did not go through the shareholders' meeting due to Malacalza's abstention, which caused the necessary quorum to be lacking. In early 2021, Reichlin was appointed by the
G20 to the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, co-chaired by
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Tharman Shanmugaratnam and
Lawrence Summers. ==Other activities (selection)==