David Folkerts-Landau is Deutsche Bank’s Chief Economist and Global Head of Research.

Before joining Deutsche Bank in 1997, David was the Head of the International Capital Markets Surveillance and Financial Markets Division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a position he held since 1992. Before that, he was on the Faculty at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, where he taught financial economics.

David holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on financial economics.