Experience

Senior Manager, Economics and Data Insights - Bank of Valletta (BOV) Link to heading

Nov 2021 – Nov 2023

Led the Economics and Data Insights Team at BOV as internal consultant on econometric modelling, financial product development, and network optimisation strategies. Led segmentation and propensity modelling for BOV’s customer base; developed a balance sheet optimisation model and several hedonic and statistical property price indices.

Principal Economist - Central Bank of Malta Link to heading

Jul 2018 – Nov 2021

Macroeconomic projections; updating and re-estimating the structural macro model; nowcasting GDP growth; estimating a business conditions index; supervising potential output estimates for Malta; developing Python tools for web-scraping. Member of the Residential Rental Observatory at the Housing Authority.

Economist - European Central Bank Link to heading

Aug 2017 – Dec 2017

ESCB–IO seconded expert scheme. Constructed a model for short-term forecasts of European labour markets using BVARs and labour market flows.

Senior Economist - Central Bank of Malta Link to heading

Nov 2015 – Jul 2018

Forecasting GDP growth, supervising narrow inflation projection exercises, and assessing business conditions.

Economist - Central Bank of Malta Link to heading

Oct 2011 – Oct 2015

Responsible for prices, costs and competitiveness analysis, focused on balance of payments, tourism and prices. Forecasting balance of payments flows, imports and exports, and Malta’s current account position.

Peer review & other assistance Link to heading

  • Peer reviewed the Malta National Competitiveness Council annual report (2019)
  • Peer reviewed and assisted with a Central Bank of Malta policy note on EC business and consumer surveys (2019)
  • Regular Central Bank of Malta board briefings on ECB papers, studies, surveys and notes (2011–2021)
  • Represented the Central Bank of Malta in ECB Working Groups and Task Forces on Potential Output, Growth, Forecasting, National Productivity, and Firm Productivity
  • Assisted with Stata code for Gonçalves & Seward (2019), “Forecasting unemployment in Portugal: A labour market flows approach,” CFP Working Papers 01-2019
  • Peer reviewed Savšek (2018), “What are the main obstacles to hiring after recessions in Europe?,” ECB Working Paper Series No. 2153

Relevant courses Link to heading

  • Economic modelling and forecasting - Bank of England (CCBS)
  • Financial frictions in international macroeconomics - Budapest School for Central Bank Studies
  • Spatial Equilibrium and the Economics of Cities - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
  • Data Science - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
  • Macroeconomic forecasting - Study Center Gerzensee, Swiss National Bank
  • Nowcasting, short-term forecasting and turning-points’ real-time detection - CEMFI, Madrid
  • SGPE Python boot camp - SIRE