Benjamin Guin

Benjamin is a Senior Economist in the Prudential Policy Directorate at the Bank of England. His work spans financial regulation, applied research, and policy strategy, with a focus on financial risk, prudential policy, and the transmission of policy to the real economy, particularly through credit and housing markets.

Since joining the Bank in 2016, he has worked across multiple functions, including a secondment as a Research Advisor in the Monetary Analysis Directorate. Alongside his policy work, he has led external research engagement through the Bank’s seminar and visitor programmes, and contributed to international regulatory work through the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the European Banking Authority (EBA). He is also a research associate at the University of Warwick’s CAGE research centre.

Before joining the Bank, he held placements at the ECB, FINMA, and Deutsche Bundesbank, and was a Chazen Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland.