Jakob Vestergaard is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). He holds a PhD in International Political Economy of Finance from Copenhagen Business School and a Post Doc from London School of Economics.

Since then, he has published on a variety of topics in global economic governance, including post-crisis banking regulation, governance reforms in the IMF and the World Bank, and macroprudential policy in emerging market economies.

His publications include Discipline in the Global Economy? International Finance and the End of Liberalism (Routledge, 2009) and Central Banking at a Crossroads (Anthem Press, 2014), a co-edited book with Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, and Ismail Erturk (Anthem Press, 2014).