Marianne Nessén new Head of Monetary Policy Department

The Executive Board of the Riksbank has appointed Marianne Nessén as new Head of the Monetary Policy Department. She will take up her new post on 20 January 2012.

On 2 December 2011, Marianne Nessén was appointed acting head of the Monetary Policy Department in connection with the head of the department, Per Jansson, being appointed as member of the Executive Board of the Riksbank.

Marianne Nessén has been deputy head of the department since 2007. She was employed at the Riksbank in 1997 and has also been head of the Modelling Division and the Division for Financial Market Analysis within the Monetary Policy Department. Prior to this, Marianne Nessén worked in the Research Department. She is an associate professor in economics.

”The Executive Board has worked with Marianne Nessén for several years. She is a very competent economist with sound experience of monetary policy and also a popular manager. We all look forward to continuing to work with her,” says Governor Stefan Ingves.

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