Lucrezia Reichlin is a Professor of economics at the London Business School, an external fellow at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel, and Chair of the group of the National Schools of Economics and Statistics (GENES) in Paris. She is a macroeconomist and econometrician.
She has pioneered methods for the economic analysis of large dimensional data and now-casting and co-founded the company now-casting limited in 2011. She was director general of research at the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2008. Professor Reichlin is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, an honorary international fellow of the American Economic Association, and a distinguished fellow of the CEPR.
She was a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) Foundation and she has led the work of the Foundation for the establishment of the International Sustainability Standards Board.
She is also a board member of several research institutions and a few commercial companies. She is the founder of the Ortygia Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to supporting female education in the South of Italy.