Dirk Schoenmaker

Non-resident fellow

Dirk Schoenmaker is a Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel. He is also a Professor of Banking and Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR). He has published in the areas of sustainable finance, central banking, financial supervision and stability and European financial integration.

Dirk is author of ‘Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma’ (Oxford University Press) and co-author of the textbooks ‘Financial Markets and Institutions: A European perspective’ (Cambridge University Press) and ‘Principles of Sustainable Finance’ (Oxford University Press). He earned his PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.

Before joining RSM, Dirk was Dean of the Duisenberg school of finance from 2009 to 2015. From 1998 to 2008, he served at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In the 1990s, he served at the Bank of England. He is a regular consultant for the IMF, the OECD and the European Commission.

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Featured work

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European insurance union and how to get there

What are the arguments for and against centralisation of insurance supervision? What would be the scope of a possible insurance union, and what would

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Cross-border insurance in Europe

The cross-border insurance sector is becoming increasingly strong in Europe. This event looks at the current cooporation between national insurance su

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Delivering a Green Capital Markets Union

Climate change presents a growing threat to financial stability. This seminar looked at how the European Union could respond by delivering a Green Cap

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Completing the Banking Union

The Five Presidents’ report published in July 2015 argues that completing the banking union should be one of the most immediate steps of the broader p

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Cyprus: Financing the Recovery

As Cyprus looks ahead to post-bailout growth, what lessons have been learnt from the crisis and subsequent bank restructuring?