Kurt Bayer is a self-employed economics consultant, having recently worked as a Board Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. In former incarnations, he was an economics researcher at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna, a board director at the World Bank, an economist at the Austrian Ministry of Finance and a public employee dealing with economic policy and International Financial Institutions. Kurt Bayer blogs on kurtbayer.wordpress.com