Niels Thygesen is Professor Emeritus of International Economics at the University of Copenhagen. He served from 2016-2024 as the Chair of the European Fiscal Board, which advises the European Commission and the Council on fiscal policy and governance. Professor Thygesen worked for the Danish Government, Harvard’s Development Advisory Service (in Malaysia), and at the OECD in Paris. He served as Adviser to the Governor of the Danish Central Bank and was Chair of the Danish Economic Council. He was a member of numerous expert groups on European monetary and financial integration; the subject area of most of his research and publications. Professor Thygesen was an independent member of the Delors Committee preparing the outline of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe in 1988-89. He was also a member of the committee advising the Government of Sweden on an exit from the crisis of the early 1990s. He was a member of the Group of Independent Experts evaluating IMF surveillance following the Asian crisis, and he chaired the Economic and Development Review Committee of the OECD, which evaluates the economic performance and policies of member states from 2000-2008. He is a Founder Member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, the Euro50 Group and OMFIF. Professor Thygesen is an honorary member of the International Advisory Council of Sovereign Investors. Professor Niels Thygesen studied at the Universities of Harvard and Copenhagen, where he obtained a PhD.