Grzegorz Halaj

Advisor, Stress Test Experts Division at European Central Bank

Speaker

GH has been working for the ECB Banking Supervision since the end of 2022 where, as well as heading teams on market risk and liquidity risk stress testing, he held an advisory role in SSM thematic stress tests, elements of the EU-wide stress test and was a member of the steering body of the stress test activities run by the EBA. He began his central banking career as an Economist at the National Bank of Poland in 2004, later moving to a major universal bank based in Warsaw as chief specialist in a new asset and liability management unit working in risk management. In 2011 he joined the ECB as a Financial Stability Expert and was later a member of the ECB stress testing team supporting the Troika programme in Cyprus. In 2018 he moved to Bank of Canada, initially to take up a Principal Researcher role with focus on stress test tool enhancement, and was subsequently appointed to two managerial roles at Bank of Canada before returning to the ECB in 2022. GH holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and a Master’s in Mathematics from Warsaw University.