Bruegel (institution)
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| Established | 2005 |
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| Focus | International economics |
| Chairman | Jean Claude Trichet |
| Director | Guntram Wolff |
| Staff | 30 |
| Location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Address | Rue de la Charité/Liefdadigheidsstraat 33 |
| Website | www |
Bruegel is an independent and non-doctrinal think tank devoted to policy research on international economic issues, based in Brussels. It started operations in 2005 and has rapidly acquired reference status in European economic policy debates.
Transparify has repeatedly awarded Bruegel five stars out of five for transparency, including 2015, recognising its openness about financing and governance. Prospect Magazine Awarded Bruegel European Economic Think Tank of the Year in 2015 and in 2016. The 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Report, published by the University of Pennsylvania, ranked Bruegel as such:
Bruegel has a unique governance and funding model based on memberships from Member States of the European Union, international corporations, and other institutions.
Bruegel relies on a core team of resident and non-resident scholars and a team of operational staff. As of December 2016, its resident research team was composed of:
Bruegel also relies on visiting and non-resident scholars, among which Alexander Lehmann, Hideyuki Makimoto, and Jianwei Xu.
Bruegel's research covers international economics and trade, fiscal and monetary policies in the EU, financial regulation, and competitiveness and growth policies. Among many other issues, it has contributed analyses and recommendations about Europe's monetary union, the Eurozone crisis, and Banking union.
Bruegel is supported by a wide array of members which contribute the bulk of its financial resources. The majority of its resources comes from state and corporate members.
As of September 2014, Bruegel's membership consisted of three categories. State members are Member States of the European Union, which joined it on a voluntary basis, including Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Corporate members are international corporations and firms, many (but far from all) of which are headquartered in the European Union. Institutional members include national and international public financial institutions as well as central banks.
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