Yves Mersch

Yves Mersch helped build the euro. As Governor of Luxembourg's Central Bank and later on the ECB's Executive Board, he spent over two decades setting interest rates for 340 million Europeans.

He was there for the financial crisis, the sovereign debt crisis, and the pandemic response. Few people understand the mechanics of monetary policy-and its limits-better than Mersch.

Organizations book him to decode central bank decisions and their real-world implications for business strategy.