Anna Thum-Thysen

Coordinator of output gap and potential output analysis, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at European Commission

Anna Thum-Thysen guides the work of the output gap and potential output analysis team in the Economic Modelling Unit of the Economics Department at the European Commission (DG ECFIN). Anna works on issues related to business cycle dynamics, productivity, labour, mark-ups, human capital and innovation. She holds a Phd in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) and in the past she held positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the European Centre for Advanced Research on Economics and Statistics (ECARES) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research (NZIER). Her work is published in peer-reviewed journals and combines in-depth analysis with policy relevance.