Klaas Knot

Klaas Knot was President of De Nederlandsche Bank from 1 July 2011 to 1 July 2025, a period during which he was also a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council and General Council, the European Systemic Risk Board, the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors, and the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements. He served as Chair of the G20’s Financial Stability Board from 2 December 2021 to 1 July 2025. Klaas currently runs his own strategic consultancy firm, KK Economic Advisory, where he advises European and Dutch public authorities on wide-ranging issues such as crisis management, central bank independence, and financing public infrastructure. He is also a frequent speaker at various (inter)national conferences and symposia. Klaas recently joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow as well as the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. Since 2019 he has been an active member of the Group of Thirty, a global advisory body comprised of economic and financial leaders. He has been (honorary) professor of Money and Banking at the University of Groningen since 2005, and an honorary professor of Monetary Stability at the University of Amsterdam since 2015.