Oscar Arce is Director General of Economics at the European Central Bank (ECB) and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) since February 2022. He was Director General of Economics, Statistics and Research at Banco de España (BdE) during the period 2018-2022, where he also served as non-voting member of the Executive Board and the Governing Council, Alternate to the Governor on the Governing Council of the ECB and member of the EU Economic and Financial Committee (EFC). Previously, he held several responsibilities at the BdE, the Spanish Securities Markets Commission (CNMV) and the Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister. Mr Arce holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and a MSc Economics from the University College London.