Julia Giese

Head of Division – International Surveillance Division

Biography

Julia Giese is an experienced central bank economist and regulator. Following a stint at Lehman Brothers in 2005/06 and later at the Financial Times, she joined the Bank of England in 2008 and has held roles in monetary policy, financial stability, prudential policy and financial markets, monitoring developments in the United Kingdom as well as globally. 

She now heads Financial Market Infrastructure Analytics where she is in charge of firms' operational and financial resilience, including cyber and stress testing, and large datasets. Besides her day job, Julia takes a keen interest in strategic foresight and bringing the practice into central banks.  Julia holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, Nuffield College, and has publications in academic journals.

Julia's selected academic publications

Broadening Future Perspectives at the Bank of England, with Jacqueline Koay, John Lewis and Melissa Davey, MIT Sloan Management Review, Dec (2025)
Gilt auctions and secondary market dynamics, with Lucas Fuhrer, Finance Research Letters (2021)
Covid-19 and the financial system: a tale of two crises, Julia Giese and Andy Haldane, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol 36 (2020)
The credit-to-GDP gap and complementary indicators for macroprudential policy: evidence from the UK, International Journal of Finance and Economics (2014)
Level, Slope, Curvature: Characterising the Yield Curve in a Cointegrated VAR Model, Economics-ejournal (2008-13)