Natacha Valla

Natacha Valla (born January 1, 1976) is a French economist and Dean of the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation. She was Deputy Director General for monetary policy at the European Central Bank from May 2018 to January 2020. She is also chair of the SUERF, European Money and Finance Forum, editorial board.

Background and education Valla was born in Marseille, France. When she was six, her family moved to Gabon for her father's career, who was an engineer at EDF.

Career Valla started her career as an economist at the European Central Bank in 2001. In 2008, Valla was appointed executive director at Goldman Sachs Global Economic Research, before joining the European Investment Bank in 2016 as head of Policy Strategy division. In 2021, she joined Lazard as senior advisor, and was appointed president of Conseil National de Productivité in 2022.

Academic career Valla has published research on numerous subjects in the field of international finance, monetary and applied macro-economics. She was a fellow at the Paris School of Economics and a member of the French Société d'Economie Politique. LVMH, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016) AccorHotels, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2016) Autoroutes SA, Member of the Board of Directors SCOR SE, Member of the Board of Directors Non-profit organizations Arte, Member of the Programme Advisory Committee Institut Montaigne, Member of the Board of Directors Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), Member of the Advisory Council

Awards In 2000, Valla was awarded the SCE Prize in Computational Economics for her graduate research.

In 2018, Valla was recipient of the French National Order of Merit.

Personal life Valla is married to Konrad Pesendorfer. She is the mother of two sons and a daughter.