Christian Odendahl is the Chief Economist at the Centre for European Reform working on European macroeconomics including the euro and the eurozone, its institutions as well as monetary and fiscal policy.

He has worked as senior economist at Roubini Global Economics in London on the eurozone, the European Central Bank and the economy of Germany.

Before 2012, he was a regular contributor to the Free Exchange blog in The Economist. He also has worked on the editorial team there as a Marjorie Deane financial journalism fellow, and at the consultancy Frontier Economics consultancy, the German state development agency GTZ in Accra, and at the German Federal Ministry of Economics. Christian holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stockholm University.