Olaf Sleijpen

Executive Board Member of Monetary Affairs and Financial Stability, De Nederlandsche Bank

As of 1 February 2020, Olaf Sleijpen was appointed Executive Board Member of Monetary Affairs at DNB. He is responsible for economic policy and research, financial stability, financial markets, payments and statistics. He is also an alternate member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB).

Olaf holds several secondary positions. Since 2007, he has been Professor of European Economic Policy at the Maastricht School of Business and Economics. Also, he has chaired the Supervisory Board of the Blue Fund, a network that aims to support LGBTQ emancipation, since 2014. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peter Elverding Chair on Sustainable Business Regulation and Corporate Culture at Maastricht University.

Before joining DNB's Executive Board, Olaf was Director of various supervision divisions. Between 2004 and 2011 he held various management positions at pension fund ABP and pension provider APG. Olaf worked previously for DNB between 1993 and 2004, as an economist and as the head of our Communications Department. From 2001 to 2004, he was an adviser to ECB President Wim Duisenberg.

In 1992, Olaf graduated with honours in economics at Maastricht University. He obtained his PhD in economics at the University of Groningen in 1999.