Frank Browne is Senior Advisor to the Governor, Central Bank of Ireland. He has previously worked as Senior Economist at the OECD (1988–1992), as Deputy Head of Stage 3 (EMU) Division at the European Monetary Institute (1994– 1998), and as Advisor to the Research Directorate at the European Central Bank (1998–2000). He has been a member of the ECB Monetary Policy Committee and the ECB Bank Supervision Committee in recent years. His research has been published in journals such as the European Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics and The Manchester School, among others.