Johannes Lindner

Johannes Lindner is Head of the Division for EU Institutions & Fora at the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as Member of the Jacques Delors Centre Advisory Board and Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School. Until October 2025, he served as Co-Director of the Jacques Delors Centre, where he lead the Think Tank and worked on economic and financial policy topics. Lindner held the Henrik Enderlein Fellowship 2022-2023, funded by Stiftung Mercator. From 2012-2022 he was Head of the EU Institutions and Fora Division, coordinating the relations of the ECB with EU institutions, in particular the Council and the European Parliament. Previously, he worked in several policy areas of the European Central Bank (since 2003) – including as Counsellor to one of the Executive Board Members and as Advisor in the area of Market Infrastructure and Payments. He studied economics and politics with master’s degrees from the London School of Economics (MSc Public Administration and Public Policy, 1998) and University of Cologne (Diplom-Volkswirt, 1999), and a doctorate degree in politics from the University of Oxford (2003) focusing on EU budgetary decision-making. Johannes has published research on EU topics, has been speaker on policy panels at various institutions/conferences and is an Honorary Professor at Aston University in Birmingham, UK (since 2018). He teaches at the Hertie School.