Claude Lopez

Bio

Claude Lopez is deputy head of financial stability at the RBA.

Before joining the RBA, she was Chief Research Officer and head of the research department at the Milken Institute, a US-based think-thank (CA, USA), where she led the Institute’s data-driven efforts aimed at influencing policy issues in international finance (systemic risk, financial stability, ESG investing, technology, capital flows), health economics (public health risks, health disparities), and regional economics (regional competitiveness, innovation, disparities).

She has over 20 years of international experience in academic and policy research. Before joining the Institute, Lopez held management roles while being senior research economist at the Banque de France, the nation's central bank, and was professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati. She has an M.S. in econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Houston. more information at claudelopez.com