Natacha Valla, a French citizen, is an economist. She began her career at the European Central Bank (2001-2005) and then at the Banque de France (2005-2008) before joining Goldman Sachs as Executive Director (2008-2013). She was then Deputy Director of CEPII (2014-2016), a think tank in international economics before joining the European Investment Bank (2016-2018) in charge of Economic policy and Economic strategy and then the European Central Bank as Deputy Director in charge of Monetary Policy. She was a member of the Nation’s Economic Commission, of the scientific committee of the ACPR and of the Economic Analysis Council (Conseil d’analyse économique, CAE). She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence and is the author of many publications and articles on monetary and international economy.