Biography

Matthias Sydow is a Senior Team Lead in the Stress Test Modelling Division at the European Central Bank (ECB), where he has over 20 years of experience in risk modelling, financial stability, and crisis management. He played a key role in developing the ECB’s top-down stress testing infrastructure and in the Comprehensive Assessment of 130 significant banks, aiding in the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. He currently leads the development of a system-wide stress testing model for banks and NBFIs. Matthias co-chairs the ECB Financial Stability Committee’s workstream on macro-financial interactions and has contributed to international working groups on stress testing and financial stability. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt and postgraduate degrees from Bertolt-Brecht University Augsburg, and has published research on stress testing and financial economics.