Domenico Giannone holds a PhD from the Universite' Libre de Bruxells (ULB). He is Professor of Economics at the ULB where he teaches Econometrics. His general fields of research are forecasting, monetary policy, business cycles and growth. His research has been published in international journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. His is associate editor for the Journal of applied Econometrics and the International Journal of Forecasting, He has worked as Economist at the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank and been Scientific Coordinator of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network. He has designed econometric models that are routinely used to inform policy decisions in many institutions including the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the European Central Bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Norges Bank. He is co-founder of now-casting.com, a web-based forecasting company.