Biography

Katarzyna Budnik is currently Principal Financial Stability Expert in the Stress Test Modelling Division at the European Central Bank. She is responsible for macroprudential stress test and policy assessment. She joined the European Central Bank in 2010 and has worked in different areas of Financial Stability and Economics. Prior to moving to the European Central Bank she was heading the Forecasting Division at the National Bank of Poland. She received her PhD degree (Econ) with honors from the Warsaw School of Economics. Her research interests include macroprudential and monetary policies, banking, macroeconomic modelling and labour markets.