Anne Sibert is Professor and Head of the School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck College. She is a CEPR Research Fellow and was an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics, especially monetary policy. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland, and serves on the Panel of Economic and Monetary Experts for the European Parliament's Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Council of Economic Advisors to the Opposition Front Bench, UK. She has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals and was Associate Editor of the Economic Journal. She earned her PhD in economics at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982.